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The research groups Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab and Software Languages (SOFT) Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are hiring a research valorisation manager/business developer to help grow and sustain its portfolio of strategic and applied research projects with industry (i.e., R&D projects co-funded by Europe, Belgium, Flanders, or the Brussels Region), and its services and...Read More

PhD position to perform research in the context of public health decision making using acombination of reinforcement learning and individual-based simulation models, under thesupervision of prof. dr. Pieter Libin.See full description of the position.Read More

On Monday October 3 2022, His Majesty King Philippe visited FARI during the 5th year anniversary celebration of the BeCentral Digital Campus. Professors Ann Nowé and Tom Lenaerts of the AI Lab and Professor Bram Vanderborght of BruBotics presented projects on Health and Well-being, Climate and Energy, Future of work, and Fairness. They explained him...Read More

Recently, the AI lab, VUB’s Acoustics & Vibration research group (AVRG), INDIWORKS and PrintPlace set up a collaboration to design and build a fully functional scale model of the Vestas V164 Offshore Wind Turbine. The main goal of this collaboration is to build a scale model of a windfarm which shows its real-time condition like speed...Read More

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