Appearances

This is an overview of all the talks I gave, both publicly or for a private audience. News outlets also occasionally interview me, those press mentions are also listed here.

Talks

April 30, 2025 UAntwerpen Guest lecture on large language models
April 29, 2025 AI&LM Workshop Steering language models INFO
April 22, 2025 Flanders AI, VAIA, VRT Vlaamse taalmodellen slides INFO
October 25, 2024 Superlinear Fairness in language models slides
June 18, 2024 KBC Large language models
June 13, 2024 VAIA Course on bias and fairness in NLP. slides INFO
June 11, 2024 Flanders AI Forum Introductory session on Dutch NLP and speech technology. slides INFO
May 27, 2024 Leuven.AI research day Tweety-7B-Dutch: A large Dutch language model.
March 13, 2024 Legal clinic @ CiTiP Legal clinic: large language models. slides INFO
February 27, 2024 NLP meetup @ BeCode Brussels Tik-to-Tok: Turn your monolingual LLMs into multilingual mavens. slides INFO
February 20, 2024 KU Leuven Lecture series on NLP. INFO
December 12, 2023 KU Leuven Guest lecture on large language models.
November 24, 2023 TU Berlin Guest lecture on LLMs for social media analysis. slides
October 30, 2023 Apple AIML Presentation of intrinsic and extrinsic fairness metrics.
June 16, 2023 Weizenbaum Institute ResumeTailor: Improving Resume Quality
April 24, 2023 BAS, Thomas More Antwerpen Generative AI: Artificial intelligence as a creative partner. slides
February 10, 2023 HR and PES workshop I talked about language models for HR and PES in Ghent.
October 18, 2022 DTAI Seminars I gave a seminar about language models and fairness in Leuven.
September 26, 2022 Data Science Meetup Leuven I gave a talk about RobBERT.
May 18, 2022 NLP Meetup @ In The Pocket I gave a talk at the 15th Belgian NLP meetup in Ghent.
March 16, 2022 VAIA Fairness and Bias in Natural Language Processing INFO
November 10, 2021 BNAIC/Benelearn 2021 I presented our work on RobBERT.
September 17, 2021 FEAST @ ECML-PKDD 2021 I gave a talk about of our workshop on algorithmic tools in public employment services.
March 25, 2021 Open Science Discovery for PhD Students I gave a presentation on versioning. slides
February 11, 2021 Techwolf I gave a presentation about RobBERT.
February 09, 2021 ML6 I gave a presentation about RobBERT.

Press mentions and interviews

April 30, 2025 MIT Technology Review
Our work on SHADES was featured in MIT Technology Review.
This data set helps researchers spot harmful stereotypes in LLMs
April 23, 2025 WIRED
Our research on multilingual bias detection was covered in WIRED.
AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
March 28, 2025 NEMO Kennislink
RobBERT got mentioned in NEMO Kennislink.
"Lees meer zonder cookies"
February 15, 2025 De Tijd
Our Dutch model ChocoLLaMA got mentioned in De Tijd.
Computerwetenschappers bouwen Vlaams AI-model ChocoLLaMA
January 20, 2024 Dataroots Interview
I was interviewed for the Dataroots podcast about code, comedy and creativity.
Code, Comedy, and Creativity: Navigating the Digital Data Tapestry
November 19, 2023 Dataroots DataTopics Podcast
My work on RobBERT was mentioned in the Dataroots podcast.
Data quality, contracts and 100 year old hares
June 07, 2023 De Groene Amsterdammer Interview
I was interviewed about my research on fairness and RobBERT for De Groene Amsterdammer.
Onderzoek: De bronnen van ChatGPT: 'Dat zijn toch gewoon ál onze artikelen?'
May 01, 2023 Scoop Magazine by Artevelde Journalistiek Interview
I was interviewed for Scoop Magazine.
AI: artifciële illustratoren?
April 19, 2023 Knack
Thomas Winters was interviewed in 'Knack' and mentioned RobBERT.
AI-expert: 'We moeten studenten aanmoedigen om met ChatGPT te experimenteren'
March 31, 2023 De Morgen Interview
October 23, 2020 NRC
RobBERT was mentioned in the Dutch newspaper 'NRC'.
De nieuwste AI-robot is onbetrouwbaar, gammel én bewonderenswaardig
January 23, 2020 Synced Review