The Executive Board of the Amsterdam UMC has decided to appoint Iacer as Principal Investigator (PI) of Amsterdam UMC, effective January 1, 2026. Congratulations Iacer!
Iacer leads the NLP4Health Lab (https://nlp4health-lab.github.io/) which focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for applications in healthcare. Iacer’s current focus includes building synergistic methods that learn from text and tabular data as well as other sources of multi-modal data (e.g., time series, images). His team is also working on all things needed to make NLP deployable, such as interpretable and explainable NLP models, methods for grounding NLP including knowledge graphs, uncertainty quantification in NLP, and privacy-preserving methods for NLP. On a more practical note, Iacer’s Lab also focuses on building resources for Dutch healthcare NLP, such as training large language models (LLMs) and generating synthetic data for use-cases in Dutch healthcare.