Currently I am an assistant professor at the Internet Technology and Data Science Lab (IDLab), Ghent University - imec, Belgium. I'm co-leading the Text-to-Knowledge research cluster with prof. Chris Develder, where we work on natural language processing (NLP) in general, for applications in several domains (the media, biomedical applications, and economics and law). Our areas of focus in NLP are information extraction, conversational agents, and representation learning in general.

Given our expertise in neural sequence modeling, we recently started looking into the use of protein language models for drug design. Give it another year before we have something decent to show here ;). My other interests include energy-based models, combining knowledge and neural networks, and synthetic data generation.