Projects
Cognitive Functional Therapy in nurses with persistent low back pain: an intervention based on an individualised multidimensional evaluation KU Leuven
Nurses perform essential healthcare tasks within our healthcare system and adequate nursing health is crucial for the provision of effective, empathic and efficient health care. However, occupational Low Back Pain (LBP) is very common among nurses. Lifetime prevalence ranges from 35 to 84% and annual prevalence is approximately 70%. LBP is worldwide the leading cause of disability and has a significant personal, social and economic impact. ...
AI-based wireless access network design for future (B)5G networks under energy- and EMF-constraints Ghent University
In the last decades, not only an increase in mobile devices has been noticed, but these devices are also becoming very powerful, allowing more demanding services such as data streaming or video calling. In the future, wireless access networks need to expand to cope with these extra demands to keep the user satisfied. However, network planning is currently already a very complex problem due to the many targets such as cost, performance, etc. ...
Engineering technology students’ activities and learning in an electronics laboratory KU Leuven
Laboratories are a staple of engineering education, as is testified by the very large fraction of face-to-face time students spend in laboratories. However, laboratories are an expensive form of instruction in terms of staff as well as equipment. Despite this important role and the high costs, research on their effectiveness is sparse. The research project described in this dissertation studies student learning in a laboratory on first order ...
AI-based prediction of agitation in dementia patients KU Leuven
With the increasing age of the global population comes a significant increase in the number of people with dementia. Although dementia is characterized primarily by a loss of cognitive functioning, there are also behavioral and psychological symptoms that are clinically relevant. Specifically, agitation is one of the most important behavioral problems seen in dementia patients. Agitation alone can lead to a significant decline in a patient’s ...
Time-based Biomedical Readout Circuits in Low-Voltage Nanometer CMOS KU Leuven
Personalized healthcare applications require low-cost sensor readouts that have a small form factor and can acquire multiple signal modalities. This requires sensor circuits that are accurate, have extensive information processing capabilities, while being able to operate with low supply voltages. A significant challenge in achieving this requirement is designing a power- and area-efficient analog front-end (AFE) in a low-voltage-supply ...
Wireless Powering of Brain Implants with Ultrasound KU Leuven
The miniaturization revolution that we see in communication and computing is also occurring in the medical diagnostic and therapeutic world. In recent years there has been a rapid emergence of advanced (wearable) medical devices that bring high quality medically relevant diagnostics in an increasingly convenient format at ever lower costs. More recently, there has been a shift toward advanced implantable devices that require minimally ...
Wireless powering for implantable device networks KU Leuven
The miniaturization of electronic systems has allowed to realize mm-sized implanted devices for all kinds of applications, ranging from sensing of relevant biological parameters to drug delivery and nerve stimulation. However, all those systems require a power source and batteries are normally too big or requiring to be periodically recharged/replaced. Given the limited and discontinuous amount of energy that can be harvested inside the body, ...
“Political Assassination in the Late Roman Empire” - Towards a new approach to studying state power and weakness in Ancient Europe and the Mediterranean Ghent University
Modern scholarship has examined political violence in the Late Roman Empire (late fourth to early sixth centuries CE) mainly as the result of mass migration processes, or as the self-evident outcome of imperial disintegration in the western Mediterranean and its hinterland. Instead, my project investigates this era’s increase in murder (in sharp contrast to the late third and fourth centuries) in both western and eastern spheres of the Late ...
Wireless Powering of Brain Implants with Ultrasound KU Leuven
We have seen an incredible transition in computing devices from vast compute servers that filled a whole room towards personal computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones. A similar revolution is happening in the medical diagnostic & therapeutic world. Recent years have seen a rapid rise of advanced (wearable) medical devices that bring high-quality medically-relevant diagnostics to an ever more convenient form factor at an ever lower ...