On Nov 29th, AI Lab PhD students Florent Delgrange, Raphael Avaros, Mathieu Reymond and Eugenio Bargiacchi won the third prize at the Smart Shipping Hackathon organized by De Vlaamse Waterweg, Antwerp Management School and EY. They proposed an AI-based solution to solve the challenge of corridor management in waterways. This challenge involves multiple actors or...Read More

In the framework of the Flanders AI Research Program, VUB organizes a webinar series on AI. The second webinar will focus on game theory, one of the core expertises of the VUB AI Lab. It aims to engage with Flemish companies to stimulate the adoption of AI in Flanders. When? Wednesday December 16h, 15h30-16h30Where? If...Read More

With great pride we can announce that Axel Abel (Joint PhD student VUB-ULB) has won the best regular paper award at ICCCI2020, the International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, for the paper “How Expert Confidence Can Improve Collective Decision-Making in Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Problems”. Abstract: In collective decision-making (CDM) a group of experts with a...Read More

In the context of the SLISE project, we are working with the EU to support innovation in Sri-Lanka and the Maldives, by giving training and performing joint R&D.   More info on Colombo Page.Read More

Reinforcement Learning: from the lab to the real world UPDATE: The webinar has ended. Follow the links to download the slides or watch the recording. In the framework of the Flanders AI Research Program, VUB organizes a webinar series on AI. The first webinar (a tutorial-style presentation organized digitally through Zoom) will focus on reinforcement...Read More

The AI Lab is proud to welcome the Italian PhD student Filippo Carnovalini. He will be supervised by Prof. Geraint Wiggins to work on the creation of a novel music composition algorithm that uses explicit structural information. In his PhD project, he uses algorithms based on music theory, namely Schenkerian analysis, to describe hierarchical structural features...Read More

AI Lab researcher Pieter Libin made it to the final of the VUB Doctoral Derby, which will take place on Thursday 25th June 2020 at 16h. He will be presenting his research on AI techniques that can create prevention strategies to mitigate the effects of epidemics. You can register for the event here, which will allow...Read More

The webinar will discuss how AI techniques such as predictive modelling and reinforcement learning can be used to improve prevention and exit strategies. One of the featured topics will be the PhD research of Pieter Libin, which he recently defended (see this news article). When? June 3rd 2020, 11.00-12.00 More info: https://experience-centre.ai/event/ai-for-defining-prevention-exit-strategies/ .Read More

The AI Experience Centre is happy to announce the ‘VUB AI Webinar series: AI & Data-driven solutions amid the COVID-19 crisis‘ each of which invites experts from various research fields to share their work on AI & Data-driven solutions in relation to the COVID-19 crisis. The Webinar Series will kick-off next week on Monday, May 11, 2020:...Read More