Peter van der Putten

Peter van der Putten is a part time researcher at LIACS. His background is in artificial intelligence and he is particularly interested how intelligence can evolve through learning, in man or machines. Peter has a MSc in Cognitive Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University and a PhD in data mining from Leiden University, and combines academic research with applying these technologies in business. He teaches New Media New Technology ( 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) and supervises MSc thesis projects.

He works part-time for the Media Technology MSc program, so schedule an appointment if you want to meet.

Companies

• Assistant Professor, Artificial Intelligence & Creative Research Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University (2017)
• Director, Decisioning & AI Solutions Pegasystems (2010)
• Guest Researcher, Artificial Intelligence & Creative Research Leiden University (2002 — 2017)
• Lecturer, Media Technology Programme Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University (2011 — 2017)
• Worldwide Director Decisioning Solutions Chordiant Software (2008 — 2010)
• Principal Consultant, Decisioning and Marketing Solutions Chordiant Software (2005 — 2008)
• Principal Consultant, Strategy Management, Data Mining and Decisioning KiQ (2002 — 2004)
• Senior Research Scientist Data Mining, Decision Support & Analytics Frictionless Commerce (2001 — 2001)
• VP Consulting, Strategy & Sales Sentient Machine Research (1996 — 2001)

Education

• PhD Leiden University
• MSc Utrecht University (1989.09 — 1996.03)