On February 27 2018 Sandra Trullemans obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Enabling and Informing the Design of Cross-Media Personal Information Management Solutions
Promotor: Prof. dr. Beat Signer
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 May 5th 2017 Reinout Stevens obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
A Declarative Foundation for Querying the History of Software Projects
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Coen De Roover and Prof. Dr. Viviane Jonckers
On April 24 2017 Seyed Pejman Sajjadi obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Individualizing Learning Games: Incorporating the Theory of Multiple Intelligence in Player-Centered Game Design
Promotor: Prof. dr. Olga De Troyer
Start it @kbc, de grootste incubator van België, stelde eerder deze week zijn gloednieuwe lichting van 38 start-ups voor. De vakjury selecteerde hen uit de maar liefst 143 businessvoorstellen die in januari werden ingediend. Een van deze projecten is van VUB-masterstudent Ingenieurswetenschappen: Computerwetenschappen Jente Rosseel.
On February 10th 2017 Jaime Alberto Chavarriaga Lozano obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Using Multiple Feature Models of Domains and Regulations to Develop Configuration Systems
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Viviane Jonckers, Prof. Dr. Rubby Casallas
Joint PhD with Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
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
On December 19th 2016 Sofie De Clercq obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Reaching a Consensus under Multi-Agent Preferences
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé, Prof. Dr. Martine De Cock & Dr. Steven Schockaert
Joint PhD with Universiteit Gent
On December 2nd 2016 Tim Brys obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Reinforcement Learning with Heuristic Information
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ann Nowé