CV

Activity

  • September 2022 – …: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leuven, campus Heverlee (half time).
  • July 2022 – …: running Nonfication Software (nonfictionsoftware.com).
  • January 2022 – March 2022: Hiking the Andes mountains in Chili.
  • December 2021: Consultant at Omniseal Solutions (Saint-Gobain).
  • December 2020 – November 2021: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leuven, campus De Nayer.
  • September 2019 – August 2020: Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science at Lund University, in the MIAO research group.
  • September 2019 – August 2020: Guest researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, in the BARC research group.
  • September 2018 – August 2019: Postdoctoral researcher at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the KTH Royal Technical University, Stockholm.
  • March 2017 – August 2018: Post-doc at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leuven, in the KRR research group.
  • October 2012 – February 2017: PhD researcher at the above KRR research group.

Industrial collaboration

  • Omniseal Solutions (Saint-Gobain)
  • ING

Awards

  • 2018: Het Gouden Krijtje (The Golden Chalk) for student-voted best teaching assistant in the Bachelor Informatica at KU Leuven.
  • 2016: Gold medal in the No-Limit track of the 2016 SAT competition with the symmetry breaking solver BreakIDCOMiniSatPS.
  • 2015: First place in the Logic Programming / Constraint Programming Contest as part of a team with Ingmar Dasseville and Matthias van der Hallen.

Teaching

  • 2012-2018: Daily thesis supervisor for the following bachelor and master students: Neline Van Ginkel, Koen De Cock, Tim Vandeneynde, Nick Brugmans, Benjamin Stienlet, Lieven Paulissen, Pierre Carbonelle.
  • 2014-2018: TA Logic for Informaticians
  • 2015-2017: Second student ombudsperson for the Bachelor of Informatics
  • 2014: Project supervisor for Modelling of Complex Systems
  • 2012-2014: TA Introduction to Programming
  • 2012-2013: TA Databases

International Participation

  • December 2019: Research visit to Melbourne University and Monash University on invitation of Emir Demirović.
  • December 2018: Research visit to the Zuse-Institute Berlin on invitation of Ambros Gleixner.
  • August 2018: Participation to the invite-only workshop on the Theory and Practice of Satisfiability Solving.
  • Program Committee member for international conferences such as IJCAI and AAAI.
  • Nine years’ worth of international conferences and workshops since November 2012.

Education

  • 2017: Doctor of Engineering Science: Computer Science – University of Leuven, Belgium, promotor Marc Denecker.
  • 2012: Master of Engineering: Computer Science – University of Leuven, Belgium.
  • 2010: Bachelor of Science: Informatics – University of Leuven, Belgium.
  • 2006: Secondary education with Latin and Mathematics as main choice topics – Sint-Lodewijkscollege, Brugge, Belgium.

Skills

  • Native Dutch, excellent English, fluent French, survivalist Spanish and German, notions of Swedish, Russian, Greek, Latin.
  • 12 years of experience in the C/C++ programming languages, 5 years of Java/Kotlin, 3 years of Python, expertise in a large range of declarative languages such as Prolog, ASP, SMT-LIB, FO(.), MiniZinc, SAT, PBO, MIP…
  • 12 years of Linux and Git experience.
  • Flexible software project collaborator.

Origin

Born 1988-02-03 in Bruges, Belgium.