Bart De Ketelaere is Innovation Manager (IOF) at the MeBioS division of the Department of Biosystems. He combines a Master in Bioscience Engineering (KU Leuven) and a Master in Statistics (UHasselt). During his PhD, he worked on the broad field of industrial quality control with applications in agrifood. His main interest is in combining novel sensor technologies and data analytical tools for product and process control. His AI-related interest relates to building and maintaining models in case of limited data, as well as to the analysis of (hyperspectral-) images and spectra. He is (co-)author of +150 peer reviewed papers and several patents. Besides, he is co-founder of two spin-off companies, both active in the field of data science.

Keywords: industrial quality control, Agrifood, Image Analysis, Applications of statistics, machine learning & AI