News

26
Mar

Prof. Ann Nowé a EurAI Fellow in 2023

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...
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20
Feb

Prof. Libin elected as member of the Jonge Academie

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...
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09
Feb

Prestigious European ERC project starts at the AI Lab. Join us!

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.
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06
Feb

The AI Lab celebrated its 40th anniversary in royal fashion

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...
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robots playing a colour naming game
04
Jan

Fully-Funded PhD Positions in Modelling Emergent Communication

How do human languages emerge and evolve? How are they acquired and used to communicate? And how can we computationally operationalise these processes so that populations of artificial agents can bootstrap their own languages in a human-like manner? If these questions put a sparkle in your eyes, we are looking for you to join the...
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31
Aug

PhD scholarship in reinforcement learning for public health decision making

PhD position to perform research in the context of public health decision making using a combination of reinforcement learning and individual-based simulation models, under the supervision of prof. dr. Pieter Libin. The application deadline is 30 September 2023. More details can be found here.
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FARI
07
Oct

King Philippe visits FARI

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...
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29
Aug

Offshore Wind Turbine project featured in Formlabs’ webinar on September 6 2022

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...
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24
Mar

Paper Highlight: Distillation of RL Policies with Formal Guarantees via Variational Abstraction of Markov Decision Processes (AAAI-2022)

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...
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