Members

Academic staff

Bart Dhoedt

Sam Leroux

Pieter Simoens

Senior researchers

Pieter Van Molle

Research staff

Thorsten Cardoen

Matteo Cardoni

Ciem Cornelissen

Sander De Coninck

Daria de Tinguy

Hanne Dejonghe

Stefano Ferraro

Alvaro Garrido Perez

Elias Malomgré

Amrapali Pednekar

Vishisht Sharma

Josse Van de Kerckhove

Thibault Van Tricht

Wei-Cheng Wang

Alumni

• Stef Van Havermaet, 2025
  Designing swarm intelligence for the conservation of animal collectives : a step towards animal-robot societies
  Promoted by Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf
  Biblio
• Mattijs Baert, 2025
  Learning symbolic representations from demonstration for interpretable agent behavior
  Promoted by Pieter Simoens, Sam Leroux
  Biblio
• Wei-Cheng Wang, 2025
  Transferable and privacy-friendly deep learning techniques for audio-visual urban surveillance : from lab to street
  Promoted by Pieter Simoens, Sam Leroux
  Biblio
• Samuel Wauthier, 2025
  Model reduction in deep active inference
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Tim Verbelen, Bram Vanhecke
  Biblio
• Inês Terrucha, 2024
  Delegation of conflict-of-interest decisions to autonomous agents
  Promoted by Pieter Simoens, Tom Lenaerts
  Biblio
• Toon Van de Maele, 2024
  Active inference for scene understanding
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Tim Verbelen
  Biblio
• Pietro Mazzaglia, 2024
  Efficient learning strategies for embodied intelligence
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Tim Verbelen
  Biblio
• Pieter Van Molle, 2024
  Integrating neural networks as diagnosis support in dermatology
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Tim Verbelen, Lieve Brochez
  Biblio
• Johannes Nauta, 2022
  The interplay between resource distributions and optimal foraging behavior : from individuals to populations
  Promoted by Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf
  Biblio
• Ozan Catal, 2022
  Deep generative models for navigation using active inference
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Tim Verbelen
  Biblio
• Ilja Rausch, 2021
  From proximity to complexity : impact of network topology in dynamic collective AI
  Promoted by Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf
  Biblio
• Piet Smet, 2020
  Service-oriented internet architectures for scalable multi-site cloud applications
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Pieter Simoens
  Biblio
• Helen Harman, 2020
  Symbolic artificial intelligence techniques to facilitate proactive robot assistance
  Promoted by Pieter Simoens, Bart Dhoedt
  Biblio
• Elias De Coninck, 2019
  Distributed computing platforms for efficient execution of complex AI-tasks enabling industry 4.0
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Pieter Simoens
  Biblio
• Sam Leroux, 2019
  Adaptieve diepe neurale architecturen voor efficiënte dataverwerking op sensorknopen
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Pieter Simoens
  Biblio
• Cedric De Boom, 2018
  Representation learning for symbolic sequences
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Thomas Demeester
  Biblio
• Steven Van Canneyt, 2016
  Knowledge extraction and popularity modeling using social media
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Steven Schockaert, Thomas Demeester
  Biblio
• Hendrik Moens, 2015
  Management of customizable software-as-a-service in cloud and network environments
  Promoted by Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt
  Biblio
• Jens Buysse, 2013
  Design and optimization of optical grids and clouds
  Promoted by Chris Develder, Bart Dhoedt
  Biblio
• Olivier Van Laere, 2013
  Georeferencing text using social media
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Steven Schockaert
  Biblio
• Bert Vankeirsbilck, 2013
  Optimisation of quality of experience for mobile thin client systems
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Filip De Turck
  Biblio
• Tim Verbelen, 2013
  Adaptive offloading and configuration of resource intensive mobile applications
  Promoted by Bart Dhoedt, Filip De Turck
  Biblio