Rate My Professor Roy Lindelauf

Roy Lindelauf is a Full Professor holding the endowed chair of Data Science, Safety & Security in the Department of Intelligent Systems at Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg University, appointed on June 1, 2023, for a five-year term subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Defense. He also holds the position of Chair of Data Science in Military Operations at the Faculty of Military Sciences, Netherlands Defence Academy, heads the Data Science Center of Excellence at the Netherlands Ministry of Defence, and leads several data science projects in collaboration with defense units such as the Joint Sigint Cyber Unit. Born in 1976, Lindelauf trained as an officer pilot and served flying Apache attack helicopters in the Royal Netherlands Air Force. In 2006, he received his MSc in Aeronautical Engineering from Delft University of Technology with high honors and his MSc in Applied Mathematics. In 2011, he earned his PhD from Tilburg School of Economics and Management with the dissertation 'Design and Analysis of Covert Networks, Affiliations and Projects'.

Lindelauf's research centers on the interplay between mathematical modeling, game theory, network science, data science, and applications in security and intelligence analysis, including terrorism, political violence, conflict, war, network resilience, cyber security, ethical artificial intelligence in military domains, and algorithms for decision-making such as UAV path planning in hostile environments. He serves as an expert member of the Global Commission on Responsible AI in the Military Domain from February 2024 to June 2027 and as advisor at the Netherlands Aerospace Center since September 2022. Key publications include 'The influence of secrecy on the communication structure of covert networks' (2009), 'Cooperative game theoretic centrality analysis of terrorist networks: The cases of Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda' (2013), 'A new approximation method for the Shapley value applied to the WTC 9/11 terrorist attack' (2018), the edited volume 'Search Theory: A Game-Theoretic Perspective' (2013), 'The irresponsibility of not using AI in the military' (2023), 'Dealing with Multiple Optimization Objectives for UAV Path Planning in Hostile Environments: A Literature Review' (2024), and 'Operationalising responsible AI in the military domain: a context-specific assessment' (2025). His scholarship has accumulated over 1,000 citations, advancing understanding in covert network analysis and responsible AI for defense and security.