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Luc Steels' PhD Students
Graduated Ph.Ds
Ordered from 1986 onwards:
- Viviane Jonckers (1986). A framework for modelling programming knowledge.
Currently: Professor of computer science VUB, Belgium. Head of Research group in system and software engineering SSEL. Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Sciences.
- Pattie Maes (1987). Computational Reflection.
Past: National Science Foundation Fellow, Belgium,
Professor of media, arts and sciences, MIT, USA. Head of
a group on software agents in the MIT Media Lab.
Currently: independent capitalist in USA.
- Walter Daelemans (1987) An object-oriented
model of Dutch morphophonology. (Linguistics Ph.D. at KUL.)
Past: Founding director of Induction of Linguistic Knowledge
research group at University of Tilburg.
Current: Professor of computational linguistics at University of Antwerpen and
research director at the Centrum voor
Nederlandse Taal en Spraak.
- Walter Van de Velde. (1988)
Learning from Experience.
Past: researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, USA,
National Science Foundation Fellow, Belgium, director of
research STAR Lab (Belgium).
- Kris Van Marcke. (1988) The Knowledge Representation System KRS and
its implementation.
Past: researcher Dida*El (Milan), director of Knowledge
Technologies, n.v. Brussels.
- Bernard Manderick. (1992)
A selectionist classification model.
Past: researcher at ElectroTechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan,
Current: professor of computer science VUB, Belgium.
Head of research group at VUB on adaptive systems (COMO )
- Jo De Cuypere. (1992) An analogical representation of fluids.
Past: Advisor ministery of science, Belgium (Flemisch Government)
Current: Van Overstraeten Foundation , a non-profit
organisation promoting micro-electronics to young researchers.
- Johan Van Welkenhuyse (1993) Participative Conceptual System Design
of Industrial Knowledge Systems.
Past: researcher Osaka University, Japan. Researcher at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis.
Researcher Knowledge Technologies, n.v. Brussels.
Current: Mediagenix, N.V. Brussels.
- Tony Bell (1993) A self-organisation
principle for the dynamics of neurons.
Current: researcher at Salk Institute , San Diego, USA.
- Piet Spiessens (1993) A parallel fine-grained genetic algorithm.
Past: Researcher at Belgacom, Brussels.
Current: Project leader at Telenet, n.v.
- Didier Keymeulen (1994)
Past: Researchers at Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba.
Current: Researcher at Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena, Ca, USA.
Center for Integrated
Space Microsystems .
Head of a group on evolvable hardware.
- Josefina Sierra (1996) Formal knowledge level
models for software agents.
Past: Researcher at Stanford, USA (with John McCarthy).
Current: Professor of Computer Science at the
Autonoma University
Madrid, Spain.
- Aurelien Slodzian
(co-graduated at University of Paris, Jussieu) (1998)
A Componential Methodology for Modeling Multi-Agent Cooperation.
Current: Independent consultant in knowledge engineering.
- Bart de Boer. (1999)
The self-organisation of vowels.
Past: Researcher at the
Center for mind, brain and learning. , Seattle, USA.
Current: professor in Cognitive Robotics at University of
Groningen, the Netherlands.
- Edwin de Jong (1999)
Autonomous Formation of Concepts and Communication. download
Current: Post-doctoral Researcher at the
Dynamical and Evolutionary
Machine Organization group Brandeis University, USA.
- Frederic Kaplan (2000) (graduated at University of Paris, Jussieu; official
promotor Alexis Drogoul)
Current: Researcher at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France.
- Paul Vogt (2000)
Lexicon Grounding on Mobile Robots.
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Current: Institute of Knowledge and
Agent Technology Maastricht, the Netherlands.
- Sabine Geldof (2000)
(Linguistics Ph.D. University of Antwerp. Official promotor: Walter Daelemans)
Context-sensitivity in advisory text generation.
Current: Research Fellow Department of Computing. Macquarie University of Sydney, Australia.
- Holger Kenn (2001) CubeOS. A
component-based operating system for autonomous systems.
Current: Researcher at the University of Bremen, Germany.
- Tony Belpaeme
(2002) Factors influencing the origins of colour categories.
Past: FWO postdoctoral researcher at VUB AI-lab.
Current: Lecturer at Plymouth University, UK.
- Joris Van
Looveren (2005) Design and Performance of
Pre-Grammatical Language Games.
- Bart Jansen
- Bart De Vylder
Current Ph.D. students
- Katrien Beuls
- Joris Bleys
- Joachim De Beule
- Pieter Wellens
- ...
Member Ph.D. committees
- Henry Lieberman (Univ of Paris, Promotor: Alexis Drogoul)
Currently at the MIT Media Lab.
- Bert Bredeweg (1986) (Univ of
Amsterdam, Promotor: Bob Wielinga) Currently at the University of Amsterdam.
- Richard Benjamins (1993) (Univ of
Amsterdam, Promotor: Bob Wielinga) Currently at the University of Amsterdam.
- Jose del R. Millan
(Univ of Barcelona, Promotor: Carme Torras) Currently at ISPRA, Varese.
- Roman Cunis (Univ of Hamburg, Promotor: Bernd Neumann)
- Jean-Yves Donnart (Architecture Cognitive et Proprietes Adaptatives
d'un Animat Motivationellement Autonome) Paris (1998). Promotor: Jean-Arcady Meyer.
- Hadassa Jakobovits. VUB Brussels (2000). Promotor: Dirk Vermeir.
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