Mark Hoogendoorn is a Full Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and chairs the Quantitative Data Analytics group. He obtained his PhD degree in 2007, was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Minnesota and started as an Assistant Professor at the VU right thereafter. In 2015 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. In his research, he focuses on machine learning, both on more fundamental improvements of such techniques as well as applications of machine learning primarily in the health domain. He participated in, and has led, a large number of (both EU- and nationally funded) research projects related to AI and health and has been the joint coordinator of the FP7 ICT4Depression project. He is currently a board member of Amsterdam Medical Data Science, the VU Campus Center for AI and Health, and ISRII (International Society for Research on Internet Interventions) where he also chairs the Special Interest Group on Data Sharing and Standards in the same organization.