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
On October 21 2016 Ahmed A.O. TAYEH obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
A Dynamically Extensible Cross-Document Link Service
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Beat Signer
On June 30th 2016 Nicolay Jens obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Purity Analysis for Higher-Order Imperative Languages: An Abstract Machine Approach
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter & Prof. Dr. Coen De Roover
Op de Fellowship Ceremony donderdag 16 juni heeft de Vrije Universiteit Brussel de namen van dertig nieuwe Fellows bekendgemaakt. Het gaat om topmensen uit het bedrijfsleven, overheid of maatschappelijke organisaties. Daaronder drie Science Fellows: Jan Bogaerts, Patrick Roggemans en Els Torreele.
On May 20th 2016 De Wael Mattias obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Just-in-Time Data Structures
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter & Prof. Dr. Jennifer B. Sartor
