About Me

Work Experience

Leuven, Belgium PhD researcher on artificial intelligence, verifiability, and NLP at the DTAI lab.

Leuven, Belgium Published a paper on detecting ad hominem fallacies (i.e. personal attacks) in online debates and presented the paper at ACL 2019 in the Student Research Workshop.

Leuven, Belgium Created a deep learning pipeline to detect obstacles in front of combine harvesters with radar data for my advanced master’s thesis.

Antwerp, Belgium Designed and developed two complementary systems for symptom detection and diagnosis of failures in distributed stream processing systems (WWS), based on the network topology, for my master's thesis.

Education

Leuven, Belgium Master's thesis under Johan Suykens in collaboration with CNH Industrial. Elective courses on genetic algorithms, fake news, and SVMs.

• Cross platform chat application in React Native
• Distributed multiplayer turn based game (Uno)
• OpenCL and CUDA photo editor with an Qt GUI.
• Elective course: Embedded systems with lab on ARM Cortex M-series microprocessors.

Bachelor's thesis: visualization and problem detection on train carriages. [code]

Other activities

I'm a teaching assistant the introductory course in Artificial Intelligence with online videos (2019-present) and databases (2020-2021).

And I have supervised or am currently supervising these master's students and interns:

• Maarten Van den Hof, 2022 (ongoing). Satire generation using transformers. Dutch thesis
• Damian Vlaicu, 2022. Prosody prediction from text. Dutch thesis Acapela
• Antoine Van Luchem, 2022. A domain-specific language for open world learning in Haskell. Thesis PL group
• Bruno Vandekerkhove, 2021 (ongoing). Neural networks in Haskell. Thesis PL group
• Lara Pollet, 2021. Learning to Rank Generated Portmanteaus. Thesis Published at ICCC'21
• Andrea Martens, 2020 (ongoing). .Predicting Traffic Violations. English thesis
• Nicholas Wellens, 2021. Morpheme-based tokenizers for language models Thesis
• Elias Regopoulos, 2020. Kiwi. Job student
• Siddharth Rajkumar Agarwal, 2020. Bias in language models. Summer intern
• Jonas Vandamme, 2019. Coreference resolution with rule-based systems in Dutch based on semantic relations. Thesis

I've reviewed for the following venues:

• Program Committee (PC) for FAccT22.
• Reviewer for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
• Reviewer for Machine Learning.
• Program Committee (PC) for the ACL 2020 Student Research Workshop.
• Program Committee (PC) for the AACL-IJCNLP 2020 Student Research Workshop.
• Reviewer for FAccT 2020.