Willem Waegeman is an associate professor at Ghent University, and a member of the research unit Knowledge-based Systems (KERMIT) of the Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling. His main interests are machine learning and bioinformatics. Specific interests include multi-target prediction problems, uncertainty quantification, sequence models and deep learning.

Willem Waegeman is an author of more than 100 papers of peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and his work has won several prizes. In recent years he has served on the program committees of leading conferences in his field (ICML, NIPS, ECML/PKDD, AAAI, AISTATS, IJCAI, etc.).

Since 2008 he is lecturing a machine learning course in Ghent. Since 2014 he is also lecturing several introductory math courses in the first bachelor (> 500 students per year). Willem Waegeman is currently supervising eight PhD-students.