Wetenschap aan zee - AI en datawetenschap

Prof. Dr. Ann Dooms is hoofd van de Digital Mathematics Research Group van de VUB. Haar specialisatie ligt in cybercriminaliteit, meer bepaald in het opsporen van vervalste afbeeldingen en kunst. Ze is een elected member van het IEEE Technical Committee in Information Forensics and Security en won al verschillende prijzen voor onderwijs, onderzoek en wetenschapscommunicatie. Ontdek haar artikels voor EOS.

Tony Belpaeme is Professor at Ghent University and Professor in Robotics and Cognitive Systems at the University of Plymouth, UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He leads a team studying cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction. He currently coordinates the H2020 L2TOR project, studying how robots can be used to support children with learning a second language, and coordinated the FP7 ALIZ-E project, which studied long-term human-robot interaction and its use in paediatric applications, and worked on the FP7 DREAM project, studying how robot therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Starting from the premise that intelligence is rooted in social interaction, Belpaeme and his research team try to further the science and technology behind artificial intelligence and social human-robot interaction. This results in a spectrum of results, from theoretical insights to practical applications.

Luc Steels studied linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His main research field is Artificial Intelligence covering a wide range of intelligent abilities, including vision, robotic behavior, conceptual representations and language. In 1983 he became a professor of computer science at the University of Brussels (VUB). He has been co-founder and chairman (from 1990 until 1995) of the VUB Computer Science Department(Faculty of Sciences).