Lynda Hardman

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1' standalone="yes"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>Lynda Hardman</title> <link type="text/css" href="default.css" rel="stylesheet"/> </head> <body> <h1><a href="http://db.cwi.nl/personen/publiek/zoek_show.php4?persnr=399">Lynda Hardman</a></h1> <img class="lfloat" alt="picture of Lynda Hardman" title="Photo courtesy TU Wien" src="lynda.jpg" width="158"/></a> I am a Manager of Research & Strategy and a member of the <a href="https://www.cwi.nl/research/groups/human-centered-data-analytics"> Human-Centered Data Analytics</a> research group at the <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/">Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)</a> in <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/amsterdam.html">Amsterdam</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands">The Netherlands</a>. My current research includes creating linked-data driven, user-centric applications for exploring information. Currently I am investigating the use of augmented reality for exploring brain regions and related brain diseases through the <a href="http://www.linked-brain-data.org">Linked Brain Data repository</a> representing neuroscience literature. At at higher level, I am interested in user-centric interaction design in the context of developing technologies. Past projects include <a href="http://www.linkedtv.eu">LinkedTV</a>, on creating links from broadcast audiovisual media automatically, and <a href="http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/f4k/">Fish4Knowledge</a>, investigating user interfaces for exploring repositories of fish videos for biologists, <a href="http://eventmedia.cwi.nl/">EventMedia</a> within the <a href="http://www.petamedia.eu/">PetaMedia</a> network of excellence, <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/79376_en.html">K-Space NoE</a>  and <a href="http://multimedian.project.cwi.nl">MultimediaN/E-Culture</a>.  Previous research interests include document models for hypermedia and synchronized multimedia on the Web (<a href="http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/">SMIL</a>). I am the director of <a href="http://amsterdamdatascience.nl">Amsterdam Data Science (ADS)</a>, a regional ecosystem for data science researchers from academia, industry and government to share ideas, pursue research, and foster talent. ADS is a partner of the national network <a href="http://www.datascienceplatform.org/">Data Science Platform Netherlands (DSPN)</a>. I am the European Director of <a href="http://liama.ia.ac.cn/">LIAMA</a>, a collaboration between <a href="https://www.cwi.nl/">CWI</a>, <a href="https://www.inria.fr">INRIA</a> and the <a href="http://ia.ac.cn">Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation</a>. <a href="https://www.cwi.nl/~lynda/talks/2014/WIRE%20Oviedo%20July%202014.pdf"><img class="lfloat" style="margin:10px 20px" alt="Front cover of booklet More Women in Informatics Research and Education" width="158" src="More%20WIRE%20thumbnail.png"/></a> <a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org"><img class="rfloat" style="margin:20px 20px" src="logo-informatics-europe-2016.png" alt="Informatics Europe logo"/></a> I was the <a href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/about/board/7-about-us/235-past-board-members.html">president</a> of <a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org">Informatics Europe</a>, the association of computer science departments and research laboratories in Europe and neighbouring areas, from 2016-2017 and past-president 2018-2019. Previous to this I was a board member from 2012-2015. As founding chair of the <a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/working-groups/women-in-icst-research-and-education.html">Women in Informatics Research and Education</a> working group I edited the first edition of the booklet <a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/component/phocadownload/category/11-best-practive-booklets.html">  More Women in Informatics Research & Education</a>. I edited the research and society section on <a href="http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en104/r-s">Women in ICT Research and Education</a> in <a href="http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en104/">ERCIM News 104</a>. In 2013 I was general chair of <a href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/about/past-summits/ecss-2013.html">ECSS 2013</a>, the annual event for deans, department chairs and senior faculty of Informatics Europe members. I am part-time professor of <a href="https://www.uu.nl/en/news/lynda-hardman-appointed-professor-of-multimedia-discourse-interaction">Multimedia Discourse Interaction</a> at the <a href="http://www.uu.nl/en">University of Utrecht</a>, at the <a href="http://www.uu.nl/en/research/institute-of-information-and-computing-sciences">Institute of Information and Computing Sciences</a> in the <a href="http://www.uu.nl/en/research/game-research/about-us/participating-research-groups/interaction-technology/"> Interaction Technology</a> group. I was the action line leader of ICT-mediated Human Activity, from 2011-2012,  of <a href="https://www.eitdigital.eu">EIT Digital</a>  , whose goal is to accelerate European ICT innovation by bringing people together from different countries, disciplines and organizations. I am an area editor for the <a href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/671322/description">Journal of Web Semantics</a> and was a member of the editorial board of the <a href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp">New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia</a> 1993-2016. I was the main organiser of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131126105445/http://ssms10.project.cwi.nl/">SSMS10</a>, the 5th <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120826134055/http://www.smart-society.net/summerschool.php">Summer School on Multimedia Semantics</a>. I co-edited a special issue for <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/site/intelligent/">IEEE Intelligent Systems</a> on <a href="http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/ex/2009/02/index.html">AI and Cultural Heritage</a> (March/April 2009 24(2) pp23-25). I co-edited a special issue of the <a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/530">Multimedia Systems Journal</a> on the  <a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/530/14/6/page/1">Canonical Processes of Media Production</a>. I was co-programme chair for <a href="http://openresearch.org/SAMT_2008">SAMT 2008</a>.  <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/">Steven Pemberton</a> and I co-edited a special issue of <a href="http://ercim-news.ercim.org/">ERCIM News</a> on <a href="http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en72/special/">The Future Web</a>.  I ran the <a href="courses/USI15">Generating and viewing links in video</a> project week of <a href="https://www.tue.nl/en/education/graduate-school/pdeng-user-system-interaction/">  User System Interaction</a> at the <a href="https://www.tue.nl/">TU/e</a>  from 2003-2015.    <h3>Miscellaneous</h3> <ul> <li> <a href="https://ir.cwi.nl/ppl/827">Publications in CWI repository</a>,  <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hn/h/Hardman:Lynda.html">DBLP</a> and <a href="http://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=tO5nca4AAAAJ&hl=nl">Scholar</a>.  </li> <li> <a href="talks">Presentations</a> </li> <li>  <a href="https://www.cwi.nl/people/lynda-hardman">How to contact me</a> </li> <li> <a href="CV.html">Early career</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~media/www9/">Multimedia and the Web workshop at WWW9</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://ir.cwi.nl/#facet=affiliation_label_partOf:Information%20Access">Group Publications 1998 onwards</a>  </li> <li> <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~media/mmpapers/">Group Publications 1991-1997</a> </li> <li> <a href="thesis/">PhD thesis:Modelling and Authoring Hypermedia Documents</a> </li> <li> <a href="madrid2000/">Slides for course on Modelling and Authoring Hypermedia Documents</a> </li>  <li> Information about Amsterdam <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/amsterdam.html">non-commercial</a> and <a href="http://www.amsterdamhotspots.nl/">commercial</a>. </li> </ul> <hr /> <a href="http://www.cwi.nl/disclaimer.html"> CWI DISCLAIMER</a> <hr /> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" height="31" width="88" /></a> </body> </html>

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