Projects
Personalized, intelligible user interfaces through human-in-the-loop generative AI Hasselt University
Early detection of Alzheimer's disease with causal generative AI University of Antwerp
Model order reduction for reducing the time complexity of thermal generative design KU Leuven
The goal of the project is to reduce the computational cost of generative thermal and flow designs by combining model order reduction methods with the method of moving asymptotes. During the PHD, there are two classes of problems that will be tackled: thermal design of solids and thermal design of solids and flow. Since the number of design variables is extremely high, it is not possible to build a reduced model for the entire design space. ...
Generative deep learning for contingent behaviour production on social robots Ghent University
Social robots are robots which interact with people in a natural manner. Autonomously generating contingent verbal and nonverbal behaviour is currently impossible. We use generative Deep Learning to observe video recordings of people and learn which behaviours are appropriate for the robot,
with the aim of having the robot produce matching verbal and non-verbal behaviour.
Unraveling the effects of climate change on the generative reproduction by plants: common juniper (Juniperus communis) as a model species. Ghent University
Little is known about the influence of temperature change, induced by climate change, on the different phases in the generative reproduction process of plants. With common juniper as a model species, this influence is studied. Common juniper is chosen because the different phases are easy to distinguish and a negative relation between seed vitality and temperature is already demonstrated.
Sabbatical Nicky Dries: Destroyers/Builders: A country-comparative case study of the generative and destructive effects of new workplace technologies KU Leuven
During this sabbatical period I will travel to countries/cities where one of two (or both) special cases can be studied: (1) the development of new technologies that do not yet exist (or at least are not yet used on any scale) with important implications for the workplace or labor market (e.g. leading robotics labs); (2) a sector, profession or group of people who have seen a sharp decline in the quality of their jobs, or whose jobs have ...
Generative pretraining in vision and language KU Leuven
Conditional Generative Models for Transparent Discrimination Detection and Mitigation in Algorithmic Decision-Making Systems Vrije Universiteit Brussel
NEWS DIVING: News Sentiment Diversity, Index construction and Generative models Ghent University
The digitalization of the media sector has disrupted the access to news News articles are now available at a large scale and low cost across many news sources In spite of the increase in news volume, economic agents often only consume news provided by a non-diversified subset of news sources The lack of diversification reveals itself in both the choice of topics covered and the sentiment used in the news articles This may lead to a biased ...