Ayoub Bagheri

Dr. Ayoub Bagheri is Associate Professor of NLP and Data Science at the Department of Methods and Statistics at Utrecht University. He leads the NLTP Lab, which focuses on NLP and AI methods applied to textual data. His main interests include fundamental research in text mining and NLP, with particular emphasis on bias and personality detection, explainable AI, large language models, and practical applications of language models in computational social sciences and health research.

Dr. Bagheri is a board member of the Utrecht Young Academy (UYA) and the Centre for Unusual Collaborations in the Netherlands. He is one of the general chairs of BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2024 and a regular program committee member for major NLP conferences such as ACL, LREC-COLING, ECAI, and EMNLP.