University of Amsterdam secures ICT funding

The University of Amsterdam has secured three ICT grants from Horizon 2020.

The funding – won by Drs Zhiming Zhao and Yuri Demchenko, of the university’s Informatics Institute, and Professor Khalil Sima’an, of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation – is derived from the framework programme’s 2014 call in the ICT objective, part of the ‘Industrial Leadership’ pillar.  The University of Amsterdam will also contribute some funding to each of the projects.

Zhao will use the funding for his SWITCH (Software Workbench for Interactive, Time Critical and Highly self-adaptive cloud applications) project, which aims to improve the existing development and execution model of time critical applications. He received a grant worth €2.1m.

Similarly, Demchenko, who obtained €3.3m in Horizon 2020 funding, will be focusing on his work in the CYCLONE (complete dynamic multi-cloud application management) project, which provides application service providers with software and tools that facilitate the deployment, management and use of complex, multi-cloud applications.

Finally, Sima’an will use the money in his Quality Translation 21 project, which aims to develop improved statistical and machine learning-based translation models for difficult language and resource scenarios. Sima’an received financing worth €2.7m.