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

Article by PhD Researcher Eladio Montero. Revised by Tom Lenaerts, Jelena Grujic. A recent investigation by the University of Ghent in Belgium revealed that today, only 33% of Flemish people are willing to comply with the COVID-19 health measures, compared with 81% in March. This lack of motivation is a big issue, suppose that everyone...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

We have the honor to invite you to the public defense of the PhD thesis of Denis Steckelmacher, to obtain the degree of Doctor of Sciences. On Friday 6th of November 2020 at 17:00, he will defend his thesis “Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for the Real World“. You can follow the defence live on YouTube. Read...Read More

On October 7, we were honoured to welcome European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders and Bruno Liebhaberg, Director General of the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) for a private visit to the AI Experience Centre of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In presence of our rector Caroline Pauwels, and with our experts from the field...Read More

With technology moving ever faster and AI impacting a wide range of jobs, the need for lifelong learning has become undeniable.  Though much introductory learning material is available online (MOOCs, blog articles, seminars, boot camps), there is a severe lack of in-depth training. The abundance of – often questionable – sources makes it hard to find high-quality, trustworthy content. Welcome our AI Lifelong Learning Programme!  Our...Read More