Youri Coppens

Pleinlaan 9, 1050 Brussels, 3rd floor (Room 3.04)

Youri Coppens

Pedagogical employee

Biography

Youri Coppens works as Pedagogical Employee for the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universisteit Brussel. His main responsibility is providing educational and recruitment support for several programs of the department, including the BSc. Artificial Intelligence, the BSc Computer Science and Master of Applied Informatics.

Before becoming a fulltime teaching assistant, Youri pursued a PhD degree at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, performing reseach in Explainable (Deep) Reinforcement Learning systems.

After finishing his MSc degree in Computer Science at VUB, Youri has spent a year in Japan through the Vulcanus in Japan exchange program. During the exchange, he did an internship at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. working on hardware acceleration techniques for Deep Reinforcement Learning. The internship resulted in Youri’s first publication, which won a best paper award.

Courses

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Algoritmen en datastructuren 1

Algoritmen en datastructuren 2

Algoritmen en datastructuren 3

Programmeerproject 2

Structuur van Computerprogramma’s 1

Publications