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Pourya Omidi - portret door Jimena Gauna voor Waag Futurelab

Pourya OmidiProject Developer

Pourya Omidi works as a project developer for Waag’s Future Internet Lab and Commons Lab. He was eighteen years old when he moved to the Netherlands to study electrical engineering at TU Delft while mastering Dutch. After his study, he started his professional journey in the commercial climate and gained a lot of experience in the high-tech software and (embedded) hardware domain. For a period of four years, he co-founded a medical startup and worked on the development of a diagnostic tool for cardiac patients. Gradually, his interest in the ethics and impact of technology grew and for that reason he joined Waag to pursue this ambition. 

Labs

Current projects

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Commons Lab

MEENT

Waag supports energy communities in setting up their own energy data commons in the project MEENT.
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Future Internet Lab

Participatieve methoden voor alignment van taalmodellen

Together with TNO, Waag Futurelab is investigating which participatory methods for value alignment exist in the development and use of large language models. In collaboration with civil society organisations, we are testing a method for identifying and embedding values in GPT-NL.
<span><a href=&quot;www.betterimagesofai.org &quot;>Rose Willis</a> &amp; <a href=&quot;www.kathrynconrad.com&quot;>Kathryn Conrad</a> / <a href=&quot;https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=RoseWillis&title=ARisingTideLiftsAllBots&quot;>A Rising Tide Lifts All Bots</a> / <a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&quot;>Licenced by CC-BY 4.0</a></span>
Future Internet Lab

DECIDE

DECIDE is a project dedicated to make artificial intelligence more democratic. Together with residents, we create transparent, human-centered decision-making systems for everyday situations that shape people’s lives, from healthcare to public services. A project for residents, built together with residents.
Een vrouw met een velgekleurd jasje houd een apparaat vast. Achter haar is een sterrenhemel geprojecteerd tegen een muur met gele en paarse sterren.
Future Internet Lab

EXCENTRIC

EXCENTRIC ontwikkelt en implementeert een Collaborative Data Practice door de uitvoering van vier sectorspecifieke en twee cross-sectorale pilots onder echte werkomstandigheden.
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Future Internet Lab

Trust-based Banking

Examining how and under what conditions undocumented residents of the Netherlands can access banking services
Big Data
Future Internet Lab

Support NWA Route: Value creation through responsible AI and Big Data

Policy makers, private developers and researchers discuss questions about the National Research Agenda's big data.