
Prof. Nava Tintarev
Full Professor in Explainable AI at Maastricht University.
Full Professor in Explainable AI at Maastricht University.
I am a Full Professor in Explainable AI at Maastricht University in the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) where I am the Director of Research. My research is funded by projects in the field of human-computer interaction in artificial advice-giving systems, such as recommender systems; specifically developing the state-of-the-art for automatically generated explanations (transparency) and explanation interfaces (recourse and control). I was a founding Co-Investigator in the ROBUST consortium to carry out long term (10-years, ~87M, NWO+EKZ+private funding) research into trustworthy artificial intelligence. I am currently a co-lab director of the ICAI TAIM lab, working on trustworthy media, in collaboration with UvA and RTL. Previous funders include the European Commission, IBM, and Twitter.
Delivered and designed with Tjitze Rienstra. Topics: (1) Intrinsically interpretable models, e.g., decision trees, decision rules, linear regression. (2) Identification of violations of assumptions; such as distribution of features, feature interaction, non-linear relationships between features; and what to do about them. (3) Model agnostic explanations, e.g., LIME, scoped Rules (Anchors), SHAP (and Shapley values) (4) Ethics for explanations, e.g., fairness and bias in data, models, and outputs. (5) (Adaptive) User Interfaces for explainable AI (6) Evaluation of explanation understandability
Delivered and designed with Francesco Barile. Topics: Non-personalized and Stereotype-based Recommender Systems, Classical recommender systems algorithms, e.g., Content-based Filtering, Collaborative-based Filtering, Offline Evaluation e.g., protocols, criteria, metrics, User-centered evaluation, Interfaces and interaction in Recommender systems, e.g., explanations and conversational recommender systems, Ethics, bias, and fairness in recommender systems, Advanced methods, e.g., Matrix Factorization, Hybrid recommenders.
Delivered and designed with Myrthe Tielman. Topics: Requirements Elicitation, Information Architecture, Design, Expert and User Evaluation, UX for AI and Adaptive Systems
Delivered and designed with Alessandro Bozzon. Topics: Human Computation, Crowd Computing, User Modeling, Human Computer Interaction
Delivered and designed with Claudia Hauff. Topics: Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Generation
Designed and delivered a Masters unit on Big Data and Cloud Computing, which is part of the Applied Data Analytics Masters program. Topics covered include: R programming, information visualization, exploratory data analysis, NoSQL, Hadoop and MapReduce.
Course coordinator and lecturer for a multi-disciplinary course with around 200 students, addressing the impact of technology on society. This required the supervision and coordination of 5 tutors.
Gave invited lectures on the topic of recommender systems and adaptive hypermedia on the course Adaptive Interactive Systems
Research methods, Digital Society, Human Computer Interaction, Web Application Development (Ruby/Rails), Data Mining and Visualization, Enterprise Computing (Java), Adaptive Interactive Systems.
Video Summarization
Fair and Transparent Recommendations
Explaining job recommendations
Explaining Risk and Uncertainty for IVF treatment
Explainable Video Summarization
Explainable Group Recommender Systems
I have collaborated and co-authored publications with numerous researchers around the world. I have also actively collaborated with industry partners such as RTL, Blendle, FDMediaGroep, IBM, and Twitter.
Track record: over 100 peer-reviewed papers in e.g., UMUAI, TiiS, CHI, ECAI, IUI, Recsys, WSDM. H-index: 34, most cited article 816 citations, ~5722 total (according to Google scholar on the 29/05/2025). I have recently been a co-author on papers receiving best paper awards at CHI, CHIIR, Hypertext, UMAP, and HCOMP.
You can also find my publications on Google Scholar, DBLP, and Scopus.
Founding co-Investigator, and social sciences and humanities chair until 2024. Total value ~87M; Also co-lab director of lab on trustworthy AI in Media
€2.8M (TUD 266K)
€400K
1.3 Million USD (TUD ~200K)