Projects
MIX-measuring media consumption KU Leuven
Provoking Diversity in Media using the Diversity Checker KU Leuven
This thesis describes the genesis of the Diversity Checker, a tool meant to provoke journalists into producing more diverse content in an intelligent fashion. Diversity in media is a very broad topic, and the project that this thesis is a part of is similarly broad in its scope. The multidisciplinary nature of the project enables the various disciplines to influence each other positively, and in particular it gives the work presented here a ...
Latent Variable Models for Language and Image Understanding in Social Media and E-Commerce Data KU Leuven
More content has been created in the past few years than in the entire history of humankind. With the exponential growth of user-contributed content, it becomes increasingly important to develop systems capable to intelligently process both language and images.
While understanding language appears effortless for humans from a young age, for computers, this is quite a challenging task. Inherently, languages are ambiguous and rich. Many ...
User modeling for personalized Ad retrieval KU Leuven
The era of Social Media-as we know it today-started around the early 2000s. Social media enable a form of virtual content sharing that is fundamentally different than before. Social media content is no longer created and published by specific individuals, but instead is continuously modified by all users in a collaborative fashion. Nowadays, users around the world are taking advantage of social media as one of their key components of ...
Strategic Research Programme: Cancer Cell Targeting in Myeloma and Melanoma (MyMe) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Microbial degradation of chlorinated ethenes in hyporheic zones: processes and development of mitigation strategies KU Leuven
The Interprosthetic Gap as a Risk Factor for Interprosthetic Fractures of the Femur KU Leuven
An interprosthetic (IP) gap is created when an arthroplasty is performed on both joints of the same bone to replace deteriorated joints. Specifically in this
thesis, placement of a hip and knee prosthesis in the femur was examined. Such an ipsilateral placement of stemmed prostheses into the same bone creates a gap of varying size and location depending on the prosthesis stem lengths. The IP gap is measured in between the tips of the ...
Development and validation of active and passive immunotherapy targeted at protein Tau in transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease KU Leuven
Downstream targets of the metabolic stress sensor SnRK1 - One kinase to rule them all KU Leuven
The evolutionarily conserved SnRK1 (SNF1-related kinase 1) protein kinase (the ortholog of yeast SNF1 and mammalian AMPK) is a major metabolic sensor, allowing acclimatization and energy homeostasis upon changes in energy availability, thereby ensuring plant survival. SnRK1 is activated by low energy stress and repressed by high photosynthetic sugar levels, with the allosteric inhibitor trehalose-6-P acting as a proxy for sucrose supply. To ...