members
Members of AIRO at IDLab - Ghent University
If you want to reach an individual member of the group, send them an email on firstname.lastname@ugent.be.
academic staff
senior researchers
researchers
Chen Fang

Danial Forouhar

Eva Verhelst

Louis Adriaens

Matthias Pex

Tanguy Cazalets

Toon Vandendriessche

Yi Liu

Yuyuan Wu

current visiting members
- Dr. Ioannis Lefkos, University of Macedonia, Greece
past visiting members
- Dr. Riddhi Das, IIT Genova
- Paulo Cardoso, IST Lisbon
- Giulia Pusceddu, IIT Genova
- Martina de Eccher, University of Göttingen
- Fatih Sivridag, University of Göttingen
vacancies
There are currently no vacancies. But feel free to reach out to us! We can assist you in applying for a personal scholarship to complete a PhD in AIRO.
graduated doctoral students
Graduate (Year) | Supervisors | Dissertation |
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Rembert Daems, PhD (2025) | Guillaume Crevecoeur, Francis wyffels, Tolga Birdal | Learning from Video in Continuous Time Using Physics Priors and Fractional Noise |
Seppe Hermans, PhD (2025) | Peter Van Petegem, Francis wyffels | Building Minds by Solving Problems: Exploring CT and STEM Integration in Vocational Education |
Pieter Wolfert, PhD (2024) | Tony Belpaeme, Francis wyffels | Co-Speech Gestures: Evaluation and Generation |
Mathieu De Coster, PhD (2024) | Joni Dambre, Mieke Van Herreweghe | Neural Sign Language Recognition and Translation: Towards Sign Language Applications Powered by Artificial Intelligence |
Maxim Bonnaerens, PhD (2023) | Joni Dambre, Matthias Freiberger | Resource-Efficient Deep Learning for Computer Vision |
Tom Neutens, PhD (2022) | Francis wyffels, Kris Coolsaet | Physical computing in primary and secondary education: techniques and tools for teaching and assessment |
Andreas Verleysen, PhD (2022) | Francis wyffels, Joni Dambre | Learning robotic cloth manipulation |
Olivier Pieters, PhD (2022) | Francis wyffels, Tom De Swaef, Michiel Stock | Reservoir computing with plants |
Gabriel Urbain, PhD (2021) | Francis wyffels, Joni Dambre | Biologically inspired locomotion of compliant robots |
Iryna Korshunova, PhD (2020) | Joni Dambre, A. Gretton | BRUNO: exchangeable deep learning models of predictive distributions |
Luthffi Ismail, PhD (2020) | Francis wyffels, Tony Belpaeme, F. A. Hanapiah | Improvement of child-robot interaction for children diagnosed with cognitive impairments |
Matthias Freiberger, PhD (2020) | Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman | Scaling up integrated photonic reservoirs towards low-power high-bandwidth computing |
Patricio Astudillo, PhD (2020) | Joni Dambre, Peter Mortier | Cardiovascular medical image analysis with deep learning |
Fréderic Godin, PhD (2019) | Wesley De Neve, Joni Dambre | Improving and interpreting neural networks for word-level prediction tasks in natural language processing |
Lionel Pigou, PhD (2018) | Joni Dambre, Mieke Van Herreweghe | Gesture and sign language recognition with deep learning |
Jonas Degrave, PhD (2018) | Francis wyffels, Joni Dambre | Incorporating prior knowledge into deep neural network controllers of legged robots |
Thibault Verhoeven, PhD (2017) | Joni Dambre, Pieter-Jan Kindermans, Pieter van Mierlo | Brain-computer interfaces with machine learning: a symbiotic approach |
Cesar Vandevelde, PhD (2017) | Jelle Saldien, Francis wyffels | Study on the design of DIY social robots |
Sander Dieleman, PhD (2016) | Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen | Learning feature hierarchies for musical audio signals |
Aäron van den Oord, PhD (2015) | Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen | Deep architectures for feature extraction and generative modeling |