GC REAIM Expert
Roy Lindelauf is professor of Data Science at the Netherlands Defense Academy and leads the Data Science Center of Excellence at the Netherlands Ministry of Defence. In addition, he holds an endowed chair at Tilburg University as professor of data science, safety, security.
After flying Apache helicopters for the Royal Netherlands Air Force, he obtained both a master’s degree with high honors in Aerospace Engineering at TU-Delft and a master’s degree in applied mathematics at TU-Delft in 2006. At Tilburg University he received his PhD thesis “Design and Analysis of Covert Networks, Affiliations and Projects” on the game and network theoretic analysis of covert networks in 2011. During the last fifteen years Roy has been actively involved in many projects concerning mathematical modeling of defense and security related topics. Professor Roy has actively engaged in creating curricula regarding game theory, network analysis, statistics, data science, intelligence analysis and other modeling related topics at the Netherlands Defense Academy, both at bachelor and master level. Additionally, he has given many (guest) lectures on the topics of social networks analysis, covert networks, game theoretic network modelling and data science at various national and international universities.
Together with the Netherlands Ministry of Defense Chief Information Office and the Faculty of Military Sciences he initialized and set up the Data Science Center of Excellence (DSCE) for Defense and Security, which will become the main hub for data science and AI research for defense and security within the Netherlands Defense Department, focusing on a variety of topics such as (social) dynamic network modeling, cyber network intrusion detection, geospatial prediction of state-actor events and other security-related topics. He is a member of several data science and AI related working groups and panels for defense and security in an international context and was responsible for a workshop on Responsible AI in the Military during the first global Summit on REAIM.
