Matthew Blaschko is a professor in the Center for Processing Speech and Images at KU Leuven. His research is on machine learning foundations and applications in medical image analysis. He is director of the KU Leuven ELLIS unit and a fellow in the ELLIS Health program, part of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, a principle investigator in the Flanders AI program, and a steering committee member for the KU Leuven AI Institute. He has been a Newton International Fellow at the University of Oxford, as well as a faculty member at the University of Paris-Saclay prior to joining KU Leuven. At KU Leuven, he received the “Golden Chalk” (Gouden Krijtje) award for Best Biomedical Technology Professor 2024-2025.