Laurent Sorber is a Belgian tech entrepreneur and researcher based near Leuven/Brussels. He holds a PhD in Mathematical Engineering from KU Leuven (2014), following a BSc in EECS and an MSc in Mathematical Engineering. Since 2018 he co‑founded and serves as CTO of Superlinear and InvestSuite, shaping AI strategy and products in consultancy and wealth‑tech fintech. Previously, he built data‑science teams at KBC and worked as software/data scientist in finance and research roles.

Expertise:

• Mathematical engineering & tensor optimization – PhD in Mathematical Engineering (KU Leuven, 2014); focused on tensor methods, multilinear algebra, optimization; ~1000 citations
  
• Machine learning & AI systems – co-founded Superlinear (AI consultancy) and InvestSuite (wealth‑tech robo‑advisor); deployed ML solutions in finance, production planning, email automation
• Large‑Language Models & generative AI – speaker on LLM internals (“Magic of Large Language Models” event, Movify, Jan 2024)
  
• Data‑science leadership & strategy – built KBC Bank’s data‑science lab; led cross‑functional ML teams; CTO at two startups
• Fairness, ethics & GDPR‑aware AI – advocates transparent, bias‑aware design compliant with EU regulation