This year’s first research meeting was led by Ana Bazzan, professor at the Informatics Institute of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has visited The AI Lab for three weeks this winter and introduced her work titled ‘Similar yet Different: the Structure of Social Networks of Characters in...Read More

The AI Lab is proud to welcome the Cuban researchers Yailen Martinez Jimenéz and Jessica Coto Palacio in our institute and assist them in their research. They work together with Ann Nowé, the head of the Artificial Intelligence Lab, on the research titled ‘Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Tool for Job Shop Scheduling Problems’. The project focuses...Read More

(BNAIC 2019) This year we are proud to organise, together with the ULB, the Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence (BNVKI) and Brewery of Ideas, the AI Synergies conference that will be held on 6-7-8 November. AI Synergies will be a combination of the 31st Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2019) and the Belgian-Dutch Conference...Read More

During last week’s research meeting, Denis Steckelmacher presented his research on Bootstrapped Dual Policy Iteration (BDPI). The PhD student explained his goals and how Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning will be employed in this process.Read More

Anna is a researcher of language evolution at the Centre for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her research interests are related to several research areas at the VUB Lab, including Computational Construction Grammar, Emergent Communication and Language, and Computational Creativity.Read More

On March 26th, AI Lab student Elías Fernández will give a presentation during the most recent edition of Technopolitics. He will show how scenarios of collective-risk and uncertainty like the anthropogenic influence in the climate change affect human behavior. More info on the Facebook eventRead More