Projects
Lifting barriers towards obtaining actionable public health information from pathogen genomes: model advancement, performance evaluation and application to respiratory syncytial virus types A and B KU Leuven
Molecular epidemiology approaches can glean epidemiological information from pathogen genomes, and have grown into an important instrument across infectious disease research. Harnessing these methods for actionable information to public health -an important goal in e.g. HIV research- requires the ability to obtain timely and unbiased information on key epidemic processes such as migration. The adoption of model-based phylogenetic inference of ...
Evaluating trade-offs between performance and security in hardware and system software KU Leuven
The ubiquitous network connectivity of all ICT devices great and small increases the risk of cyber attacks against these devices. The vulnerabilities that enable these attacks used to be mainly software vulnerabilities. However, the last few years have seen a new kind of attacks: remote software controlled attacks that exploit subtle defects, oversights or even features in hardware to break important security objectives of the ...
Construction and evolution of young adolescents’ sex role attitudes: individual, home and school-related determinants and relationship with student school performance and classroom behavior. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Selecting the good magistrate: Towards a validated conceptual model of job performance of magistrates. KU Leuven
The modern expectations for accountability of the judicial system are embedded in the movement of judicial performance evaluation that encourages research and practice to map the judicial functioning. Although the accountability of individual magistrates is perceived as a crucial part of assessing the efficiency and efficacy of the justice system, the tension between accountability and independence drove researchers to exclusively focus on ...
Optical networks: performance analysis, optimization and control by means of analytic modeling (FWO-postdoc Wouter Rogiest) Ghent University
We study algorithms for flexible switching in optical packet-switched networks. By means of queueing models and analytic optimization techniques we evaluate the performance of existing algorithms. This characterization allows to propose modified algorithms, interacting flexibly with the instantaneous variations of traffic over the network.
Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing for Electrical Machines with increased performance (AM4EM) KU Leuven
AM4EM will investigate the use of additive manufactured (AM) parts into electrical machines (EM). In particular, we aim at additively manufactured parts that are in the electromagnetic path of the machine, like the windings or elements of the stator/rotor core. In order to do so, there is a need for additive manufacturing processes that are able to print multi-materials (MM). Multimaterials means that we can combine the following materials in ...
Improving comprehensibility and performance of risk prediction models for decision support in clinical environments KU Leuven
Visual analytics (VA) combines automated analysis with visualisation techniques to gain insight into complex datasets. The overall objective is to create a feedback loop and to enable end-users to steer the analysis process. Whereas much advancement has been made in the field, there are still several open challenges associated with this “human-in-the-loop” approach to data analysis. A first key challenge is to enable end-users to understand ...
Contextualizing personality assessment: Towards a better predictive validity for work performance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(1) despite the fact that personality turns out to be a consistent predictor of work performance, the predictive validity of personality on performance is moderate at ...
Analytical performance modeling of chip multiprocessors Ghent University
Studying and designing chip multiprocessors (CMPs) relies mainly on simulation, which is very time-consuming and offers little insight. The goal of this project is to develop an analytical performance model for CMPs that quickly estimates the performance of a CMP by evaluating mathematical formulas and that offers more insight into the main causes of performance loss.