Steven Adriaensen obtained on September 21 2018 the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
On the semi-automated design of reusable heuristics
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ann Nowé
On March 30 2018 Anna Harutyunyan obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Beyond Single-Step Temporal Difference Learning
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ann Nowé
On November 17 2017 Hannah Little obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
It's not all in your Mind: Modality Effects on the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bart De Boer
On November 3 2017 Heikki Rasilo obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Computational models of associative learning in the acquisition of speech imitation, acoustic word models and word-meaning mappings
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bart de Boer
On January 27th 2017 Kevin Van Vaerenbergh obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Model-free Reinforcement Learning for Real-world Applications
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé
You are cordially invited to the series of lectures on research challenges and emerging technologies for computational modeling of economic and financial domains. The VUB has appointed the Vloeberghsleerstoel 2015-2016 to Peter McBurney, head of the Department of Informatics, King’s College, London, UK.
On June 26th 2015 Hoste Lode obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
A Declarative Approach for Engineering Multimodal Interaction
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Beat Signer & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter
On May 15th 2015 Saba Yahyaa obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis: Explorations in Reinforcement Learning: Online Action Selection and Online Value Function Approximation
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bernard Manderick