Projects
Flemish-Dutch collaboration against disinformation, for and by fact checkers, media professionals, scientists and other experts KU Leuven
The vast amount of conspiracy theories and disinformation that coexist alongside genuine information threatens an open, well-functioning and pluralistic information ecosystem that is key to effectively functioning democracies. Most research on fact-checking and disinformation has neglected the Dutch and Belgian setting. Yet the rise of political polarisation, misconceptions about COVID-19 and migrant communities, and declining trust in media ...
Fluid news in Flanders Ghent University
Online news is fluid. Articles are continuously published and edited. The consequences of this fluidity are unclear today. In this project, the continuous adaptation of news will be studied and a measurement procedure for news quality is developed. Moreover, a system for public control will be developed to monitor the quality of news in Flanders.
Verifying Learning Artificial Intelligence Systems KU Leuven
"With great power comes great responsibility" is a cliché that perfectly applies to artificial intelligence (AI). As technology is progressing faster than ever before towards software with more and more abilities, adaptation and autonomy, the risks are becoming increasingly apparent. As a matter of fact, humans are still lacking the tools to systematically obtain strong guarantees - about their safety, privacy, etc. - from the intelligent ...
Development of a self-powered microfluidic platform for lab-on-a-chip applications KU Leuven
With the constant world population growth and ageing, several medical conditions are becoming a burden both in terms of deaths and cost for the health care system. For this reason, research institutions and biopharma companies all over the world are developing new diagnostic tools which allow early detection of many medical conditions, from cancer to infectious diseases, and monitoring of chronical pathologies. In fact, a timely diagnose is ...