Jacco Van Ossenbruggen
Full Professor Human-Centered Data Science
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJacco Van Ossenbruggen is a Full Professor in Human-Centered Data Science and leader of the User-Centric Data Science group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, bringing 18 years of experience at the intersection of data, human factors, and research infrastructure. He serves on the management board of ODISSEI, reflecting his commitment to open data and enabling social science and economic research at scale. With a PhD from VU Amsterdam and deep academic roots there since his studies, he blends rigorous scholarship with practical contributions to open-source tooling—such as front-end improvements to the popular SWI-Prolog web IDE (SWISH). Known for improving usability details that matter (from CSS fixes to dependency cleanups), he focuses on making complex data systems accessible and trustworthy for researchers and practitioners alike.
18 years of coding experience
VWO, VWO at Tabor College Oscar RomeroPhD, PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Github Skills (4)
front-end-development10
css10
web-development9
javascript6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SWI-Prolog/swish
Sep 2015 - Apr 2018
SWI-Prolog for SHaring: a SWI-Prolog web IDE
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacco primarily contributed to the user interface of the SWI-Prolog web IDE. They made improvements to the table display of Prolog answers, ensuring correct vertical alignment in the `runner.css` file. Furthermore, the user addressed a broken dependency in the project by removing a reference to `jquery-ui`. Additionally, a typo in `types.css` was fixed, which was causing issues in the minified CSS.
swi-prologweb-ide
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