Erman Acar

I am an AI researcher with a background in logic and game theory, and a tenured faculty member at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the Informatics Institute (IvI) at the University of Amsterdam. I am part of the Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group, the Cognition, Language and Computation (CLC) lab, and affiliated with the ILLC units NLP and Digital Humanities and Theoretical Computer Science.

I am also a founding member and co-manager of AI4FinTech at the University of Amsterdam, and part of the management team of the Hybrid Intelligence Centre, a large national collaboration across Dutch universities.

With over 15 years of experience in AI, my work spans symbolic reasoning, neuro-symbolic systems, causality, and multi-agent systems, with a particular interest in applications in financial services and fintech. My research focus is on combining machine learning with symbolic and causal methods to build AI systems that are more capable of reasoning, collaboration, and explanation.