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a Dutch computer scientiest. In 1993 he started as a PhD student at the [[University of Alberta]] , and at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_University_Rotterdam Erasmus University] Rotterdam. In 1997 he was a postdoc at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT's]] LCS, where he worked with [[Charles Leiserson]] and [[Don Dailey]] on [[Cilkchess]] at the Supercomputing Technologies Group. Until 1999 he was researcher in the Computer Systems Group of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit Vrije Universiteit] in Amsterdam where he worked on Wide Area Algorithms. Next, he worked in IT Governance at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers PriceWaterhouse Coopers], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Security_and_Justice_%28Netherlands%29 Ministry of Justice] in the Netherlands. Since October 2009 he is professor of information and complex decision making at [[Tilburg University]]. Since 2014 he is professor of data science at the Leiden Centre of Data Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), [[Leiden University]]. Aske Plaat is creator of the [[MTD(f)]] <ref>[http://plaat.nl/mtdf.html Aske Plaat: MTD(f), a new chess algorithm]</ref> <ref>[httphttps://people.csail.mit.edu/plaat/mtdf.html MTD(f) - A Minimax Algorithm faster than NegaScout]</ref> search algorithm as applied in Cilkchess <ref>[https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=425 Aske Plaat's ICGA Tournaments]</ref>. He is deputy editor of the [[ICGA Journal|Journal of the International Computer Games Association]] [[ICGA]].