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These webpages contain information on the various educational programmes and courses offered at or by the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), the computer science and artificial intelligence department of Leiden University.

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Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van

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Courses

Year	Course	BSc/MSc	Staff	Programmes	ECTS	Level	Period
2026‑2027	Programmeermethoden NA (4031PRGR4)	BSc	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Other	4	100
2025‑2026	Bachelorproject/Bachelorklas (4032BDI15)	BSc	Doughty, dr. H.R., Meulen, dr. A.N. van der, Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, Salehkaleybar, dr. S.	Inf, I&E, DSAI	15	400
2025‑2026	Programmeermethoden NA (4031PRGR4)	BSc	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Other	4	100
2024‑2025	Bachelorproject/Bachelorklas (4032BDI15)	BSc	Cao, dr. L., Meulen, dr. A.N. van der, Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Inf, I&E, BioInf, DSAI	15	400
2024‑2025	Programmeermethoden NA (4031PRGR4)	BSc	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Other	4	100
2023‑2024	Bachelorproject/Bachelorklas (4032BDI15)	BSc	Cao, dr. L., Meulen, dr. A.N. van der, Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Inf, I&E, BioInf, DSAI	15	400
2023‑2024	Programmeermethoden NA (4031PRGR4)	BSc	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Other	4	100
2022‑2023	Bachelorproject/Bachelorklas (4032BDI15)	BSc	Cao, dr. L., Kosters, dr. W.A., Meulen, dr. A.N. van der, Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Inf, I&E, BioInf, DSAI	15	400
2022‑2023	Programmeermethoden NA (4031PRGR4)	BSc	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Other	4	100

Supervised theses

Information below is sourced from the LIACS Thesis Repository.

Year	Student	Thesis	Supervisors	Programme
2025‑2026	Meurs, J. (Justin)	Analyzing DropConnect Retention Rates and the Block Structure of Param...	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, B.E. van Zwol MSc	DSAI
2025‑2026	Kolstee, S. (Sophie)	Optimizing Formula 1 Pit Stop Strategies Using QUBO and Annealing-Base...	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, Dr. J.A. Krzywda	Inf
2024‑2025	Haik, D. (Dominika)	A Diagnostic Framework for t-SNE and UMAP: Improving Interpretability	S.M.H. Huisman Ph.D., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	DSAI
2024‑2025	Kalinin, V. (Volodymyr)	Interactive Signaling and Response System	Preuss, dr. M., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	DSAI
2024‑2025	Leeuwen, Q. van (Qiu)	Explaining semantic priming effects using predictors derived from Larg...	Dr. T.D.P. Heyman, Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	DSAI
2024‑2025	Piszczek, W. (Wiktor)	Improving Settlers of Catan agents with Natural Language	Preuss, dr. M., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	DSAI
2024‑2025	Tsie-A-Foeng, E. (Ernie)	Transforming the Crazyflie 2.1 Nano-Drone into an Interactive Pet	Preuss, dr. M., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	DSAI
2024‑2025	Ulusal, F. (Figen)	Semantic Priming: Comparing LLMs, Human Feature Norms and Associative ...	Dr. T.D.P. Heyman, Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	DSAI
2025	Marshall, S.C. (Simon)	Separating Quantum and Classical Computing Rigorous Proof and Practica...	Dunjko, prof.dr. V., Bäck, prof.dr. T.H.W., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	PhD
2024‑2025	Pleunes, S. J. (Stijn)	Using AI-Powered Data Extraction to Improve Reproducibility in Scienti...	Dr. T.D.P. Heyman, Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	I&E
2023‑2024	Zheng, A. (Alex)	Exploring Algorithmic Approaches to Best the Game Hill Climb Racing	Müller-Brockhausen, dr. M.F.T., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	DSAI
2023‑2024	Evrenoglou, P.I. (Peli)	Quantum-Inspired Games: Gameplay in Quantum Tetris	Kosters, dr. W.A., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	CS
2023‑2024	Nouweland, L. van den (Luuk)	Quantum Checkers: the Development and Analysis of a Quantum Combinator...	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, Preuss, dr. M., Müller-Brockhausen, dr. M.F.T.	CS
2023‑2024	Pleunes, J. (Jelle)	Quantum-inspired Hackenbush	Kosters, dr. W.A., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	CS
2023‑2024	Kooter, M. (Michaël)	Quantum Games as a Benchmark for Quantum Hardware - How suitable are t...	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, Krzywda	I&E
2023‑2024	Bakker, M. (Michaël)	Creating Agents for the Card Game Rikken	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, Rijn, dr. J.N. van	Inf
2023‑2024	Brouwer, I. (Ivor)	Quantum Game Development Using Unitary	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, Preuss, dr. M.	Inf
2023‑2024	Veraar, M. (Max)	A Quantum-Inspired Algorithm for Galaxy Classification	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, dr. A. Pérez Salinas	Inf
2022‑2023	Oey, E. (Elyanne)	Hypernetworks for binary neural networks	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, F. Frohnert	DSAI
2022‑2023	Middelkoop, Richard	Investigating the application of genetic algorithms to design paramete...	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, Dunjko, prof.dr. V.	CS
2022‑2023	Capelle, J. van (Jelle)	Detecting Phase Transitions using Forward-Forward Neural Networks	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, F. Frohnert	Inf
2022‑2023	Martens, C. (Christian)	Ground State approximation with Product States using Graph Theory	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van, P. Emonts , dr. J. Tura	Inf
2022‑2023	Steennis, C. (Christian)	Identifying the phase change of the Ising model using a Spiking Neural...	Li, dr. X., Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Inf
2022‑2023	Wong, K.M. (Kah Ming)	Efficacy and Characteristics of Search Algorithms in Quantum Tic-Tac-T...	Nieuwenburg, dr. E.P.L. van	Inf

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