Short CV

 


Researcher unique identifier(s):

•ORCID: 0000-0003-3645-1455

•SCOPUS Author ID: 8643861100

•Researcher ID: B-6376-2008

•Google Scholar profile


Affiliations: ai.vub.ac.be and mlg.ulb.ac.be


Education

  1. •2003, PhD in Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

  2. •1996, Master in Applied Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

  3. •1993, Bachelor in Applied Computer Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium


Career

Present

  1. •2018 – present, Professor (Tenured) Computational Biology and Artificial intelligence, Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  2. •2007 – present, Partime (10%) Research Professor, Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium


Past

  1. •2008 – 2018, Associate Professor (Tenured) Computational Biology and Artificial intelligence, Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  2. •2006 – 2008, Postdoctoral researcher, Switch Lab, VIB, Belgium

  3. •2003 – 2006, Postdoctoral researcher, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Intelligence Artificielle (IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  4. •2002 – 2003, Researcher and Phd Student, Artificial Intelligence lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium

  5. •1996 – 2002, Assistant Computer Science and Phd Student, Adaptive Systems group and Computational modeling lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium



Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows

  1. •2007 – present, 6 postdocs, 18 PhD students, 25 Master students and 1 US Fullbrght/BAEF student; Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

  2. •2008 – present, Member of more than 15 guidance committees with the Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles.


Teaching activities

  1. •2009 – present, Responsible for courses related to Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, (Machine) Learning, Artificial Intelligence.


Organisation of scientific meetings

  1. •2007 – present , Organizer of 11 workshops, meetings and conferences worldwide and program committee member of 55 international conferences with the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Computational Biology and Complex Systems.


Ongoing institutional responsibilities

  1. •2018 – present,President of the ULB Computer Science Department, Brussels, Belgium.

  2. •2017 – present,Director of the Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels, ULB-VUB, Belgium

  3. •2016 – present,Board member Benelux Association for AI (BNVKI - bnvki.org).

  4. •2010 – present, Co-head of the Machine Learning group, Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  5. •2009 – present, Academic Coordinator for ERAMUS and international exchanges for the ULB CS Department


Commissions of trust

  1. •2005 – 2015,Review Board Member for the IWT Flanders (Bioinformatics and AI committees)

  2. •2005, 2008 and 2014, Editor, Artificial Life issues 11(4), 14(3) and 20(1)  (MIT)

  3. •2017, Editor, Frontiers in AI and Robotics on Emergence of the Cognitive Mechanisms for Cooperation.

  4. •2013, Jury member yearly price in Computer Science, IBM Belgium.

  5. •2017, Jury member yearly price in Information and Communication Technologies, Nokia Bell, Belgium.

  6. •2010 and 2013, Evaluator for EPSRC project applications, UK.

  7. •2013 Evaluator for Bioinformatics project applications of the FRM, France.

  8. •2016 Evaluator for 5th Call for Proposals of the International Fellowship Programme WHRI-ACADEMY (FP7 Marie Curie COFUND scheme), UK.

  9. •2017 Evaluator for the CMU Portugal project applications by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal.

  10. •2016 – present, Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing group)

  11. •2017 – present, Editorial Board Member, Nano Communications Networks (Elsevier)



Selected invited presentations to international conferences

In the last five years, I have been invited speaker at more than 20 occasions, not considering presentations at international conferences and workshops. I participated myself in 25 international conferences within that period..


Publication track record

I have published over 110 papers in international peer reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. Citations are currently above 3000 times according to Google Scholar, with an average of 270 citations per year in the last 5 years.


Recent Awards

  1. •2017 The article «Evolutionary dynamics of social dilemmas in structured heterogeneous populations» (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2006; 103(9), 3490-3494) is a Google Scholar classic in the category  Game Theory and Decision Science.

  2. •2016 Nucleic Acid Research Breakthrough article nomination for “DIDA : a curated and annotated digenic diseases database”.(Nucleic Acids Res, 2016; 44: D900–D907)

  3. •2015RCSB Poster award. International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB), Ireland