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
Prof. Tony Belpaeme
Prof. Joni Dambre
Prof. Francis wyffels
senior researchers
Dr. Andreas Verleysen
Dr. Annelies Lejon
Dr. Tom Neutens
researchers
Axel Willekens
Bjarne Vandevelde
Danial Forouhar
Dries Marzougui
Edger Rutatola
Eva Verhelst
Giulio Antonio Abbo
Jarne Van den Herrewegen
Maria José Pinto
Marieke Louage
Mathieu De Coster
Matthijs Biondina
Natacha Gesquière
Peter De Roovere
Qiaoqiao Ren
Rembert Daems
Remko Proesmans
Ruben Janssens
Stefan Iacob
Tanguy Cazalets
Thomas Lips
Toon Vandendriessche
Victor-Louis De Gusseme
Willem Lapage
Yi Liu
current visiting members
- Dr. Riddhi Das, IIT, expert on Bioinspired Soft Robotics
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |