Projects
EU data subject rights in cross-border data transfers Vrije Universiteit Brussel
HICSS-57: Process mining using Electronic Health Records data - quo vadis? Reflections from observing nurses' activities and data registration behavior Hasselt University
The Epistemology of Data Science: Mathematics and the Critical Research Agenda on Data Practices Vrije Universiteit Brussel
eFficient decentRAlized proCessing of high-velociTy streamIng data spread across heterogeneous persONal data vaults Ghent University
Today, service providers govern the centralized storage & processing of personal data. Due to regulation (e.g. GDPR) and increasing awareness about data sensitivity, a paradigm shift towards decentralization is imminent. This allows people to control their personal data, by guarding all public & private data they or others create about them in a vault, and selectively granting access to people & organizations of their choice. ...
CONSOLIDATION: consistent climate data records of soil moisture and vegetation though data assimilation KU Leuven
The current wealth of microwave satellite observations and model simulations gives access to global estimates of soil moisture and vegetation. However, both sources of information are of insufficient quality to draw unequivocal conclusions about the short- to long-term variability in the water and carbon cycles over land. CONSOLIDATION will, for the first time, assimilate multiple available microwave-based soil moisture and vegetation ...
Does patient empowerment foster access to and re-use of data in biomedical research, while allowing for meaningful protection of the fundamental right to data protection of patients? KU Leuven
Biomedical research relies on access to and re-use of personal data. The complex legal EU framework and in particular the divergent application of the General Data Protection Regulation, currently challenge the conduct of research. New policy initiatives, such as the European Health Data Space, promise to address the existing complexities and facilitate research, while simultaneously empowering patients by strengthening their control over ...
Land Surface Data Assimilation in the Big Data Era KU Leuven
Soil moisture is a key variable in the global energy, water and carbon cycle. Global soil moisture variations can be simulated with Land Surface Models (LSMs) or observed with space borne remote sensing instruments. However, both of these data sources are known to have various limitations and distinct error characteristics.
Data assimilation aims at leveraging the strengths of LSMs and satellite observations by merging them in a ...
Optimizing outbreak data management tools using epidemiological and genomic data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, and integrating artificial intelligence tools to allow for monitoring the evolution of an outbreak in real time KU Leuven
With 6 million deaths caused by COVID-19, and 30 Ebola virus disease outbreaks identified since the late 1970s, emerging diseases are an important and continuous cause for concern worldwide, as our ability to rapidly contain outbreaks emerging can rapidly have a global impact. A key element of disease control lies in the ability to rapidly understand transmission patterns and measure the impact of (non-)pharmaceutical interventions. In real ...