Last month, AI Lab PhD student Florent Delgrange presented his paper entitled “Distillation of RL Policies with Formal Guarantees via Variational Abstraction of Markov Decision Processes”, co-authored by Prof. Ann Nowé and Prof. Guillermo Perez (University of Antwerp – Flanders Make), at the AAAI-22 conference.  Paper summary: While (deep) reinforcement learning (RL) has been applied to...Read More

icity.brussels launches a series of free webinars, the ‘icity Lab Talks’, dedicated to the ULB and VUB research units active in the digital domains, to highlight the value they can bring to you through their knowledge, services, technology and skills. Subscribe here. Schedule 09:20 Conference Introduction 09:30 Artificial Intelligence: From the lab to the real...Read More

Next academic year (2022-2023), the VUB AI Lab will welcome the first students in the brand new Bachelor in AI. Last week the programme received a positive recommendation after the so called “Toets nieuwe opleiding”, a thorough external approval procedure. The Flemish government – who invested a lot in AI during the last couple of...Read More

We are hiring! PhD position to use machine learning for real-time decision making There is currently an open PhD position in machine learning applied to real-time decision making, under the supervision of prof. Pieter Libin.We are looking for a PhD candidate to conduct research in the context of decision-making using a combination of reinforcement learning...Read More

AI Lab was well represented at BNAIC 2021, the reference AI and ML conference for Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg which was held from 10 to 12 November 2021. The best demo award was won by Isel Grau, and the team of the Innoviris project Driving collective data governance through smart engagement platforms which was...Read More

Joint research by VUB AI Lab professor Pieter Libin and his colleagues from UHasselt, UAntwerpen, KU Leuven, ULiège and other international universities shows that alternative testing strategies in schools can squash the spread of coronavirus, while keeping as many children as possible in school. ‘Als we de leerlingen twee keer testen per week, kan je...Read More

We are hiring! PhD and postdoc position to use machine learning to investigate Brugada syndrome There are currently two open positions in machine learning applied to computational biology, under the supervision of prof. Pieter Libin and prof. Bart Bogaerts.We search a PhD candidate or postdoctoral researcher to conduct machine learning research in the context of computational...Read More

On June 23rd, President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo visited the FARI institute in their offices at BeCentral. During the next four years, FARI will receive funding to help the Brussels Region in its digital transformation. Read more about it here.Read More

The AI Challenge is back this year with a whole new project. The master’s degree students in their “Current trends in AI” course have partnered up with Lawrenza this year to create an AI prototype for them. Lawrenza is a start-up in the legislative field whose focus is shifted towards simplifying the research of legal...Read More

VUB, ULB and the Brussels Capital Region government announce the launch of a new Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good Institute during the Belgian AI Week of AI4Belgium. FARI Launch – Formal Announcement from VUB AI Xperience Centre on Vimeo. Today, Annemie Schaus and Caroline Pauwels, respectively rectors of ULB and VUB, were proud to...Read More