Teaching and Supervision

Teaching:

Wageningen University

Agent-Based Modelling of Complex Adaptive Systems (P4 2022)

Modelling and Simulation of Complex Socio-Technical Systems (P6 2022)

Programming in Python (P1/P2 2021,2022)

Data Science Applications for Food and Consumer Science (P4 2022)

Data Science for Food and Consumer Behaviour Research (P5 2023)

Ghent University

Algorithms (WS 2021)

Data Structures (SS 2020)

Algorithms and Data Structures (WS 2020)

Distributed Applications Course (WS 2015, WS 2016, WS 2017)

Informatics 1 Course (SS 2016, SS 2017, SS 2018)

Engineering Project (SS 2017)

Coaching Research Project (4-6 Master students) (WS 2016, WS 2017, WS 2018)

Paderborn University

Swarm Intelligence Course (WS 2014, SS 2015, WS2015)

Recent Results in Swarm Intelligence(WS 2014, SS 2015)

Supervisions:

Doctoral Theses:

2021

Tony Soulage, Aritifical Agents for Modulating Human Subjective Time, Ghent University, Belgium.

2020

Stef Van Havermaet, Time Modeling for Artificial Agents, Ghent University, Belgium.

2018-2022

Johannes Nauta, Exploration Strategies in Unknown Physical and Abstract Spaces, Ghent University, Belgium.

2017-2021

Ilja Rausch, Collective Decision-making in Large-Scale Artificial Systems, Ghent University, Belgium.

Master Theses:

2022-2023 (1)

Bram Gilliaert, Putting some psychology in AI: learning a sense of time, Ghent University, Belgium.

2021-2022 (1)

Bram Verhulst, Bringing animal herds into safety: Cooperative consensus algorithm for the identification of dangers, Ghent University, Belgium.

2020-2021 (4)

Arne Vandenberghe, Impact of individual heterogeneous behaviour in collective systems, Ghent University, Belgium.

Ward Vereecken, Do you recognize your choice? AI modeling of choice blindness and validation in an online study, Ghent University, Belgium.

Matthias De Fré, Brecht De Baer, Team strategies in a game of timing: a case study on cybersecurity with implementation in Unity, Ghent University, Belgium.

Matthias Cami, Passing the Turing Social Dilemma test: how to design artificially intelligent agents for strategic interactions, Ghent University, Belgium.

2019-2020 (4)

Wout Provost, Simultaneous decision and response in a collective system, Ghent University, Belgium.

Jannes Moeskops, Daredevils in a robot swarm: optimizing the trade-off between risk and reward, Ghent University, Belgium.

Timothy Thiecke, Taming a swarm of robot locusts: how scale-free networks emerge from local interactions, Ghent University, Belgium.

Xavier Claerhoudt, Wolf pack intelligence: how leaders impact the speed and accuracy of group decision-making, Ghent University, Belgium.

2018-2019 (5)

Mathias Annot, Decision making under different individual time scales in multi-agent and swarm robotic systems, Ghent University, Belgium.

Thomas De Pontieu, Teaming up in a robot swarm, Ghent University, Belgium.

Bavo Deprez, Learning causality by perception of time in a robot swarm, Ghent University, Belgium.

Arnout Vandersteen, Effect of scale-free communication on collective response or swarm robots, Ghent University, Belgium.

Erlend Hofstad Langseth, Evolving exploratory agents for model-based reinforcement learning, Ghent University, Belgium.

2017-2018 (4)

Stef Van Havermaet, Collective Levy Search in Robot Swarms, Ghent University, Belgium.

Brent Floré, Collective mood: A swarm robotic approach towards passive opinion distribution, Ghent University, Belgium.

Robin Lievrouw, Collective Learning in Swarm Robotics, Ghent University, Belgium.

Seppe Vanhee, Optimizing task allocation under deadline constraints in swarm robotics using the ACO algorithm, Ghent University, Belgium.

2016-2017 (3)

Wolfger Vanderper and Stefaan Vercoutere, Collective Robot Motion in Swarms using Short- and long-range communication, Ghent University, Belgium.

Nathan Van Eenoo, Short- and long-range Interactions for Studying Collective Behaviors in Simulation, Ghent University, Belgium.

2015-2016 (1)

Ewout Merckx, Extending and testing the possibilities of ARGoS in order to create complex world models in the ARGoS simulator, Ghent University, Belgium.

Bachelor Theses:

2021-2022 (1)

Rick Vendrig, Human influence on foraging swarm robots in an agricultural scenario, Wageningen University , Netherlands.