Position

I am a post-doctoral researcher working on creative artificial intelligence under supervision of prof. dr. Luc De Raedt at the DTAI research group of the KU Leuven computer science department and the Leuven.AI institute.

Publications

During my academic career, I have published the following 22 papers. A more up-to-date list is available on my Google Scholar profile.
Papers marked in blue are recommended if you would like to gain quick insights into my main research interests.

Education

• Post-doctoral researcher in Creative Artificial Intelligence

  KU Leuven

  At the DTAI research group under supervision of prof. dr. Luc De Raedt.
  2023-present
• PhD in Creative Artificial Intelligence

  KU Leuven

  At the DTAI research group under supervision of prof. dr. Luc De Raedt. Thesis topic: "Neuro-Symbolic Creative Artificial Intelligence for Humor".
  2018-2023
• Advanced Master in Artificial Intelligence

  KU Leuven

  Magna cum laude.
  2017-2018
• Master of Engineering in Computer Science

  KU Leuven

  Summa cum laude. Top 5% of class.
  2015-2017
• Erasmus (during Master of Engineering in Computer Science)

  University of Bristol

  First class mark on every unit.
  2015-2016
• Bachelor of Science in Informatics

  KU Leuven

  Magna cum laude. First of class.
  2012-2015

Teaching

During my PhD, I have been a teaching assistant for the following courses:

• Generative AI module @ Applied AI: Academic Perspectives

  B-KUL-B30773

  This module is a 12-hour lecture series about generative AI, which I designed from scratch. It covers text generation, image generation, audio generation as well as discussions on the limits and risks of generative AI.
  2024-Present
• Artificiële Intelligentie voor iedereen

  B-KUL-H02D2A

  An optional course about AI, available to all bachelors at KU Leuven. I interviewed professors about their AI-related research to create videos as follow-up discussions after their lecture.
  2021-2022
• Artificiële Intelligentie

  B-KUL-H06U1A

  The main AI course for engineering and informatics bachelor students. I help integrate new material into the exercise sessions, regularly create new exercises with extensive solution slideshows and with videos, and teach all thirteen exercise sessions to multiple groups every year.
  2018-Present
• Capita Selecta Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence

  B-KUL-H05N0A

  Master's course where AI students work together on their own project. I was the teaching assistant responsible for the Computational Creativity track of the Contemporary Topics of AI submodule. For this, I proposed the computational creativity topics for student pairs to explore, and coached them in their research.
  2018-2020

Supervision

I supervised the following students' master's theses:

• Enforcing Creative Constraints in Autoregressive Language Models During Generation for Musical Parodies

  (NL) Toepassen van creative regels voor autoregressieve taalmodellen tijdens het genereren met een focus op muzikale parodieën

  Anton Lintermans
  2023-2024
• Humor Theory-Guided Humor Detection and Comprehension with Machine Learning for Steering Autoregressive Language Models Towards Humor Generation

  (NL) Humortheorie-geleide humordetectie en humorbegrip met machine learning voor de sturing van autoregressieve taalmodellen richting humorgeneratie

  Victor De Marez
  2022-2023
• Asking the Right Question: Generating Difficulty-Ranked Questions from Examples

  Jinfu Chen
  2021-2022
• Comic Art Generation using GANs

  Marnix Verduyn
  2021-2022
• Satire Generation with the T5 Model

  (NL) Satire generatie met het T5 model

  Maarten Van den hof
  2021-2022
• BarLocaliser: Neural-Symbolic Detection of Bars in Bar Charts

  (NL) BarLocaliser: neuraal-symbolische detectie van staven in staafdiagrammen

  Simon Kupers
  2020-2022
• SAGE: a Heuristic-based Acronym Generator

  (NL) SAGE: een heuristiek-gebaseerde acroniemgenerator

  Tibo Masselis
  2020-2021
• Morphological Tokenizers for Dutch Language Models

  Nicholas Wellens
  2020-2021
• Normalization of Slideshows in the Conversion from PDF to PowerPoint

  (NL) Normalisatie van diavoorstellingen bij de conversie van pdf naar PowerPoint

  Sieben Bocklandt
  2020-2021
• Automatic Ranking Generated Portmanteaus

  (NL) Automatisch rangschikken van gegenereerde porte-manteaus

  Lara Pollet
  2020-2021
• Example-based Procedural Generation: Shape Inference and Grammar Induction from Voxel Structures

  Gillis Hermans
  2019-2020
• Learning User Preference in a Generative Anagram Model

  (NL) Gebruikersvoorkeuren leren in een generatief anagrammodel

  Simon Roelandt
  2019-2020

Awards

• Postdoctoral Mandate

  KU Leuven

  Personal postdoc funding for one year of research
  2023-12-06
• Best Video Award

  BNAIC/BENELEARN2020

  Best video presentation of the Belgian AI conference
  2020-11-20
• FWO Fellowship

  Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

  Personal PhD funding for four years of fundamental research
  2019-10-10