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Doctoral researcher Stijn Ally offered an AI workshop at the Day of Science in Hoeilaart on the 24th of November. Participants learned to train an image recognition model and to put it to use it in a computer game they developed with Scratch. Children, parents and grandparents were very enthused by their encounter with AI....Read More

AI-Lab members Senne Deproost, Denis Steckelmacher and Ann Nowe recently won the BNAIC 2024 Best paper award!Their paper introduces a novel method to generate programs from a Deep Reinforcement Learning policy. By exploiting gradients from the critic value network, the algorithm steers a genetic programming loop towards value-maximizing programs with domain-specific operators.Read the paper here!Read More

Doctoral researcher Stijn Ally received the 𝘽𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 from the North American Wind Energy Academy from among over 150 presenting researchers at the 2024 NAWEA / Windtech Conference. “This recognition further motivates me to continue advancing my research on AI-driven solutions that accelerate the energy transition,” says Stijn. Check out the work he presented...Read More

Wondering about the role AI can play in the energy sector? On 26 November, VAIA and the Flemish AI Research Programme organize a highway event where AI Lab director Ann Nowé and our close collaborator VUB prof. Jan Helsen will speak about the latest research poised to transform operations in the energy domain. Don’t miss...Read More

In the context of the VUB Willy Calewaert chair of Prof. Dr. Em. Luc Steels, we invite you to the seminar “Grenzen van generatieve AI” on November 8, 2024. Click here to see the full program and to register. Note that the presentations will be in Dutch.Read More

Congratulations to AI-Lab director prof. Ann Nowé on joining the distinguished list of EurAI Fellows in 2023. The EurAI (European Association for Artificial Intelligence, previously ECCAI) Fellow program was launched in 1999 to recognize individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe. Fellows’ accomplishments range from pioneering advances in the theory...Read More

On March 6, the “Jonge Academie” (Young Academy) of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts will inaugurate ten new members. This institute brings together top young researchers and artists to contribute to the formation of the public image of science, through debates, opinion pieces and events. Prof. Libin of the AI...Read More

For the next six years, prof. dr. Bart Bogaerts will investigate Trustworthy Combinatorial Optimization. His grand goal is to provide end-to-end correctness guarantees for combinatorial optimization engines, all the way from the human-readable input to the solutions produced. Bart is looking for PhD students, Postdocs and collaborators to join him on this prestigious project. Find out more here.Read More

In December 1983, Luc Steels founded the first AI Lab on the European continent, right here at the VUB. Forty years later, on December 19th 2023, friends, colleagues, former students and long-time supporters of the lab came together at the Royal Library of Belgium to celebrate four decades of AI research.  Prof. Steels took his...Read More