Bart Verheij
Professor Bart Verheij holds the chair of artificial intelligence and argumentation at the University of Groningen. He is a staff member of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering (ALICE), Faculty of Science and Engineering, participating in the Multi-agent systems research program.
In the academic year 2013-2014, he was resident fellow at Stanford University. He participated in CodeX – the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, a collaboration between the Stanford AI Lab and Stanford Law School, where he is now listed as affiliated faculty. He was invited researcher at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (University of Cambridge, Autumn 2016).
He has an MSc degree in Mathematics (University of Amsterdam, algebraic geometry) and obtained his PhD degree at Maastricht University (Faculty of Law, Department of Metajuridica; Faculty of General Sciences, Department of Computer Science), on a dissertation about the formal modeling of argumentation, with applications in law.
His research focuses on artificial intelligence and argumentation, often with the law as application domain. He led a research project on the connections between arguments, scenarios and probabilities in forensic reasoning with evidence, funded by the NWO Forensic Science program (2012-2017). More information: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~verheij/nwofs/. Inspired by the interdisciplinary and cross-methodological insights gained in this project, he is working on the connections between knowledge, data and inference.
He has published on artificial intelligence and argumentation in more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications. His h-index is 25+ (see his Google Scholar author profile).
He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Argument and Computation, section editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence and Law, and board member of professional organisations (BNVKI, community builder; COMMA, vice-president; IAAIL, vice-president; JURIX, vice-president/secretary).
In 2014, he co-organized the event Trial With and Without Mathematics at Stanford University. In 2013, he was an invited visiting lecturer at the Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China). He served as program chair of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2013, Rome) and of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012, Vienna).