Projects
Investigating the mechanism of action of aggregation-inducing antimicrobial Pept-ins KU Leuven
Amyloid light-chain (AL) amyloidosis is the most common form of systemic amyloidosis in western countries.1 It is usually caused by the misfolding immunoglobulin light chains (LC) which are secreted by aberrant proliferating clonal plasma cells. The misfolding LC can aggregate and deposit in the form of amyloid fibrils in multiple tissues and organs, including heart, kidney, soft tissues, liver, peripheral, autonomic nervous system and/or ...
Reliable Communication and Accurate Sensing for UAV Traffic Management KU Leuven
In recent years, the number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (a.k.a. drones) in our skies increased dramatically. Drones are used in many civil and, sadly, military applications. Typical civil applications are environmental and structural monitoring of difficult-to-reach zones, filming for the TV and the Cinema, taking spectacular panoramic photos, and also surveillance and search and rescue operations by the police, the forest guard, and the fire ...
Optimizing Embedded Vision Efficiency across the Hardware-dataflow-algorithm Stack KU Leuven
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have been shown to be capable of performing complex tasks like (semi-)autonomous driving, image enhancement or creation, and winning strategy games such as Chess and even Go. All these example of AI are powered by a particularly powerful technique: neural networks (NN). However, processing neural networks is very demanding of the hardware executing them. Yet, at the same time, they should run on ...
Taxation of corporate groups under the Belgian corporate income tax system KU Leuven
The rise of corporate groups has challenged the traditional corporate income tax system under which each company is considered an autonomous legal entity and is taxed accordingly. The underlying rationale is that each independent economic activity presupposes an independent legal entity. Hence, legal reality coincides with economic reality. The same rationale cannot apply to corporate groups as the constituting group companies are merely part ...
Nitrification consultancy for the pilot plant of MELiSSA, the regenerative life support system van ESA. University of Antwerp
Guiding networked societies, linking data science and modelling University of Antwerp
Advanced signal processing for cardiorespiratory analysis in sleep apnea and epilepsy KU Leuven
It is well known that heart rate and respiration interact with each other, and that they are unconsciously regulated by the autonomic nervous system. Although these interactions themselves are well-known to exist, their exact understanding is still limited and controversial. In addition, several disorders such as sleep apnea and epilepsy can have a further effect on these interactions. These disorders are associated with a high morbidity and ...
Conformational dynamics of the Sec secretion system KU Leuven
Protein biogenesis is an intricate process for proteins that function at extracytoplasmic cellular compartments, or beyond, and these account for more than one third of any proteome. Their folding process is temporally and topologically uncoupled from protein synthesis. It is made even more challenging by the need for targeting to export machineries and translocation through them. Most exported proteins cross the cytoplasmic membrane through ...