Computer Science & AI

Pascal chair at LIACS

The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) of Leiden University proudly establishes the Blaise Pascal chair. The chair applies for one year and is meant to strengthen the cooperation of the Leiden computer science research with foreign institutes.

Pascal professor 2023 is Peter Flach

Peter Flach (2023)
University of Bristol, UK
Department of Computer Science
Intelligent Systems Laboratory

Heike Trautmann (2017)
University of Münster, Germany
Information systems and statistics

Natasha Jonoska (2015)
University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Theoretical computer science and natural computing
Lecture: ‘Computation by molecular self-assembly’

Kyle A. Gallivan (2012)
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, USA
Algorithms for large scale systems and computations
Lecture: ‘An Introduction to Methods for Optimization Problems on Riemannian Manifolds’

M. Koutny (2011)
School of Computing, Newcastle, UK
Concurrency
Lecture: ‘Enhancing Petri Nets to Model Biological Processes’

Nada Lavrac (2010)
Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

D. De Groot
USA
Hardware design

X. Liu
Brunel, UK
Bioinformatics

Lothar Thiele (2005)
Switzerland
Embedded systems

Constantine Polychronopoulos (2000)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

T. Head (1998 first Blaise Pascal Professor)
USA
Algebra and DNA computing

George Cybenko (1996 Kloosterman)
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH, USA

H. Ehrig (1993 Kloosterman)
Germany
Graph transformations

A. Salomaa (1988 Kloosterman)
Finland
Formal languages and automata