The Cognitive Science & Artificial intelligence (CSAI) program investigates human and artificial brains and minds. It emphasizes artificial intelligence, data science and computer science in light of cognitive science. The program is highly interdisciplinary, focusing on artificial intelligence and human behavior, with an emphasis on data technologies, signal, text, and image processing, robotics and avatars, serious gaming, and virtual and mixed reality.

The CSAI program has acquired projects worth a total of 30 million euros, including over 40 university and corporate partners. Moreover, researchers of the CSAI program have established university-wide initiatives, including a 1.2 million euro virtual and mixed reality lab, a 40 million euro large inter-university data science research and education program now active in three locations, and a 10 million euro inter-party initiative on interactive technologies and human behavior. More information about the program can be found on its website csai.nl.