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Awards & Scholarships
Awards
- SSIS-17 Best PhD pitch award: second place.
- ILP-17 Award: Most promising late-breaking student paper.
- Best project award” of the Computer Graphics course at EPFL with the project Gribouillage and Particles, fall 2012.
Scholarships
- IWT PhD Fellowship from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2018 .
- AAAI-18 scholarship.
- UAI-17 scholarship.
- WiML-16 travel scholarship.
- NIPS-15 student travel scholarship.
- WiML-15 travel scholarship.
- VLIR-UOS scholarship for a development-aid-related internship in Ecuador in July to September 2013.
Community Service
Mentoring Young Computer Scientists
- Ladies@Science
- Ladies@Science from KU Leuven gives the opportunity to high school girls to sample science studies and research for an afternoon. I have been a project leader for the workshops of 2017 and 2018.
- Innovation Lab
- Innovation Lab from KU Leuven designs science projects that high school teachers can organize in their classroom. I was involved in the artificial intelligence project in which the students build a poker bot.
- Summer School Project Leader
- The Summer School of Science (S3) is an international summer school students of ninth and tenth grade where they work on a science project in a group of 4 students. I designed and led the speech recognition project of 2015.
- CoderDojo Coach
- CoderDojo is a global movement of free coding clubs for young people. I was a Scratch coach in the Belgian division in 2014-2016.
- KinderUniversiteit
- At KinderUniversiteit (Childrens’ University) 8-13 year olds get to go to university for one day where they attend lectures and workshops. In 2015 I was twice a mentor of a workshop where they used Scratch on a Raspberry Pi.
Reviewing
- Journal Reviewer
- Senior Program Committee member
- Program Committee member
- Subreviewer
Organizing
- I co-organized the Spring workshop on mining and learning (SMiLe) in 2016.
- I co-organized the internal Spring workshop on mining and learning (SMiLee) in
Work Experience
- 2020-present Postdoc
- on Artificial Intelligence in DTAI lab at KU Leuven.
- 2019-2020 Machine Learning Researcher
- for Expressive Speech Synthesis at Acapela group.
- 2014-2018 PhD
- on Learning Tractable Probabilistic Models and Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Data at KU Leuven (DTAI).
Education
- 2014-2018 PhD
- on Learning Tractable Probabilistic Models and Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Data at KU Leuven (DTAI).
- PhD Fellowship from IWT.
- 2012-2014 Master in Computer Science at KU Leuven
- Graduated summa cum laude, best student of 2014.
- Master Thesis: “Learning Markov Random Fields with Tractable Representations.” Supervised by Prof. Jesse Davis and Guy Van den Broeck
- Jul-Sept 2013 Internship in Ecuador
- I implemented a prototype of a decision support system for preventive cultural heritage conservation. This was part of the VlirCPM project at Architecture faculty of the Universidad de Cuenca in Ecuador.
- Fall 2012 Exchange Semester at EPFL
- Average grade: 5.5/6
- 2009-2012 Bachelor in Engineering: Computer Science and Electronics at KU Leuven
- Computer Science average: 85%
- Electronics average: 75%
- 2008-2009 Exchange year in Ecuador with YFU
- I did a supplementary year of high school in Latacunga, Ecuador. I lived there with a local family. This way, I learned Spanish and discovered the Ecuadorian culture.
- 2002-2008 Secondary school: Mathematics/Science
- Sint-Albertus College, Heverlee
- Student Representative
- Member of Environmental Group
- Founding member of freshmen mentoring program