Local Organizing Committee

Tim Verdonck

  • Professor,  Department of Mathematics, University of Antwerp – imec & KU Leuven (Belgium)
  • Chair of the Local Organizing Committee
  • Research interests: robust statistics, dimension reduction techniques, fraud analytics and causal machine learning
  • Contact: tim.verdonck@uantwerpen.be

Lynn D'eer

  • Senior researcher & Project manager, IDLab, University of Antwerp – imec (Belgium)
  • Research interests: data science, applied machine learning, graph-based learning
  • Contact: lynn.deer@uantwerpen.be

Thomas Decorte

  • PhD researcher, Department of Mathematics, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
  • Research interests: data science, causal machine learning
  • Contact: thomas.decorte@uantwerpen.be

Tom De Schepper

  • Visiting Professor & Program manager, IDLab, Department of of Computer Science, University of Antwerp – imec (Belgium)
  • Research interests: human-like AI, reinforcement learning, applied machine learning
  • Contact: tom.deschepper@uantwerpen.be 

Sarah Leyder

  • PhD researcher, Department of Mathematics, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
  • Research interests: data science, robust, statistics, causal machine learning
  • Contact: sarah.leyder@uantwerpen.be

Iris Janssens

  • PhD researcher, IDLab, University of Antwerp – imec (Belgium)
  • Research interests: data science, statistics, causal machine learning, causal discovery
  • Contact: iris.janssens@uantwerpen.be

Kevin Mets

  • Assistant Professor, IDLab, Faculty of Applied Engineering, University of Antwerp – imec (Belgium)
  • Research interests: deep learning, reinforcement learning, graph-based learning
  • Contact: kevin.mets@uantwerpen.be

José Antonio Oramas Mogrovejo

  • Assistant Professor, IDLab, Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp – imec (Belgium)
  • Research interests: explainable AI, intelligible AI, relational learning, computer vision
  • Contact: josantonio.oramasmogrovejo@uantwerpen.be

Thomas Servotte

  • PhD researcher and data scientist, University of Antwerp – imec (Belgium)
  • Research interests: data science, sports analytics, anomaly detection, prescriptive modeling.
  • Contact: thomas.servotte@imec.be

Stefan Van Aelst

  • Professor, Department of Mathematics, Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) (Belgium)
  • Research interests: robust statistics, statistical modelling, robust and sparse statistical models
  • Contact: stefan.vanaelst@kuleuven.be