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Curriculum Vitae of Hendrik Blockeel

Index

Brief CV

Degrees

• Burgerlijk ingenieur in de Computerwetenschappen (K.U.Leuven, 1993) (Master of engineering in computer science)
• Master's thesis: "Een partiële evaluator voor ML".  (A partial evaluator for ML)
• Master of engineering in Artificial Intelligence (K.U.Leuven, 1994)
• Master's thesis: Applications of Inductive Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing.
• Doctoraat in de Toegepaste Wetenschappen (K.U.Leuven, 1998) (PhD in Applied Sciences)
• PhD thesis: Top-down Induction of First-Order Logical Decision Trees.

• 1973-1982: Elementary school: Gesubsidieerde Vrije Basisschool, Kaster
• 1982-1988: Secondary school: Scholengemeenschap voor Katholiek Secundair Onderwijs, Avelgem
• 1988-1993: Burgerlijk Ingenieur Computerwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• 1993-1994: Master of engineering in Artificial Intelligence, K.U.Leuven

• October 1994 - December 1994: research assistant (wetenschappelijk medewerker), K.U.Leuven
• January 1995 - December 1998: research assistant (IWT-bursaal) at K.U.Leuven
• January 1999 - September 1999: Post-doctoral research assistant (Post-doctoraal wetenschappelijk medewerker, Onderzoeksfonds K.U.Leuven)
• October 1999 - September 2008: Post-doctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (postdoctoraal onderzoeker FWO-Vlaanderen)
• October 1999 - September 2005: Assistant professor (buitengewoon gastdocent), K.U.Leuven
• October 2005 - September 2009: Associate professor (hoofddocent), K.U.Leuven
• January 2007 - : Associate professor (universitair hoofddocent), Universiteit Leiden
• October 2009 - : Professor (hoogleraar), K.U.Leuven

Teaching

• Beginselen van Programmatie: oefeningen (95-96)
• Fundamenten voor de Informatica: oefeningen (97-99)
• Artificiele Intelligentie: oefeningen (KULAK) (98-99)
• Gegevensbanken (Campus Kortrijk) (99-05, 06-)
• Machine Learning and Inductive Inference (99-)
• Informatica 1, 2 (08-)
• Fundamenten voor de Informatica (09-)

• Course on ILP at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, May 2-12, 2000
• Course on ILP at ESSLLI-2000, the 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, Birmingham, UK, August 6-18, 2000.
• Course on Machine Learning at the BEST Summer School, Leuven, September 7, 2001.
• Tutorial on Data Mining and Data Warehousing, "ICT for Managers" post-academic education programme, University of Ghent, November 2002.
• Lecture on "Graph mining: Learning graph grammars", Advanced SIKS Course on Computational Intelligence, 23-24 October 2008.
• Lectures on Machine Learning at the Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France, November - December 2009
• Course on Applied Statistics at the Universiteit Leiden, Fall 2010

Research

• 5th International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming, Leuven, 1995.  Member of the organising committee.
• Data mining seminar; in cooperation with BIRA (Belgisch Instituut voor Regeltechniek en Automatisering) and  TI (Technologisch Instituut).  Antwerp, June 1, 1999.  Co-chair.
• Ninth Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning.  Maastricht, November 5, 1999.  Organizer, with L. Dehaspe.
• Second Leuven-Freiburg Workshop on Machine Learning; Oostkamp, March 2001.  Organizer.
• Workshop on Grammar Induction and Information Extraction.  Kasterlee, April 2002.  Organizer.
• Fourteenth Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  Leuven, October 21-22, 2002.   Organizer, with M. Denecker.
• Fourth ``Freiburg, Leuven and Friends'' meeting on Machine Learning, Dourbes, March 2003.  Organizer, with M. Bruynooghe and C. Vens.
• Third Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining, at KDD-2004, Seattle, August 22, 2004.  Organizer, with S. Dzeroski.
• Sixth ``Freiburg, Leuven and Friends'' meeting on Machine Learning, Ferrieres, March 2005. Organizer, with M. Bruynooghe and C. Vens.
• Seminar on Logic and Computation, Oostende, May 3-4, 2005.  Organizer, with M. Bruynooghe, J. Paredaens, J. Van den Bussche.
• Fourth Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining, at KDD-2005, Chicago, August 24, 2005.  Organizer, with S. Dzeroski.
• DTAI Conclave, Nieuwpoort, September 22-24, 2005.  Organizer.
• Special track on "Statistical Relational Learning" of the 31th Annual Conference of the German Classification Society on Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and Applications; Freiburg, March 7-9, 2007.  Organizer, with K. Kersting.
  
• Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI-2007): Logic for Artificial Intelligence.  Leuven, August 20-28, 2007.  Organizer.
• Eighth ``Freiburg, Leuven and Friends'' meeting on Machine Learning. Hastiere, March 21-23, 2007. Organizer, with L. De Raedt, D. Fierens and T. Croonenborghs.
  
• Collocation of 19th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, 7th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, and International Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning. July 2-4, 2009. Organizer, with L. De Raedt.
  
• Data Mining Course, Arenberg Doctoral School, September 2009 (Organizer, with L. De Raedt)
• Data Mining Course, February 2011 (Co-organizer, with L. De Raedt, K. Driessens, C. Vens)

Programme chair of

• Ninth Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning.  Maastricht, November 5, 1999.
• Fourteenth Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  Leuven, October 21-22, 2002.
• Fourteenth European Conference on Machine Learning.  Cavtat-Dubrovnik, September 22-26, 2003.
• Third Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining, at KDD-2004, Seattle, August 22, 2004.
• Fourth Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining, at KDD-2005, Chicago, August 24, 2005
• Seventeenth International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming.  Corvallis, Oregon, June 19-21, 2007.
• 7th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs.  Leuven, Belgium, July 2-4, 2009.

• Thirteenth European Conference on Machine Learning.  Helsinki, August 19-23, 2002.
• Twenty-second International Conference on Machine Learning.  Bonn, August 7-11, 2005.

• Twenty-second International Conference on Machine Learning.  Bonn, August 7-11, 2005.

• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2008. Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-19, 2008. Publicity Chair.
  

• ECML/PKDD 06 (area "inductive logic programming and relational learning")
• ECML/PKDD 07
  
• ECML/PKDD 09
  
• ICML 2010
  
• ECAI 2010
  

• IJCAI 09-11: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
• KDD-09: 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

• PADD 99-00 : the Third / Fourth International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• BNAIC 99-10 : Belgian-Dutch Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
• Benelearn 99-10 : Belgian-Dutch Conferences on Machine Learning
• ECML 01-10: European Conference on Machine Learning
• PKDD 03-10: European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases
• ILP 01-10 : International Conferences on Inductive Logic Programming
• WI 01, 03, 04, 08: International Conference on Web Intelligence
• MRDM 01: ECML/PKDD-01 Workshop on Multi-Relational Data Mining
• ICML 02-09: International Conferences on Machine Learning
• IDDM 02: ECML/PKDD-02 Workshop on Integration Aspects of Decision Support, Data Mining and Meta-Learning
• MRDM 02-03: KDD workshops on Multi-Relational Data Mining
• ECML/PKDD-2003 Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Machine Learning
• ROCAI-04: ECAI-2004 Workshop on ROC Analysis in Artificial Intelligence
  
• MGTS-04: ECML/PKDD-2004 Workshop on Mining Graphs, Trees, and Sequences
• AM-04: Third International Workshop on Active Mining
• KDID 05-06: International Workshops on Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases
• RML-05: Relational Machine Learning - ECML Workshop on Subsymbolic paradigms for learning in structural domains
• NAiNE-06: Symposium on Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering
• ECAI 06,08,10: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• AAAI 06,08: National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• KDD-06: 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
• SRL-06: 2006 Workshop on Statistical Relational Learning
• MLG 06-10: International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs
• PAKDD 07-08: Pacific-Asian Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Databases
  
• SBIA-08: 19th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence
• PRICAI-08: 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• ICDM-08: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• SOKD 08-10: Workshops on Service-Oriented Knowledge Discovery
• SDM 09-10: Siam International Conference on Data Mining
• DS 09-10: International Conference on Discovery Science
• ACML-09: 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning
• MLD 09-10: Workshop on Learning from Multi-Labeled Data
• KDMPM-09: Workshop "Knowledge discovery meets process mining"
• PlanLearn-10: Workshop on Planning to Learn

• 5th-9th International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming ('95-'99)
• 14th-16th International Conference on Machine Learning ('97-'99)
• 9th-10th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems ('96, '97)
• 7th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory ('96)
• 7th-9th Belgian-Dutch Machine Learning Conference ('97-'99)
• 9th and 10th Dutch Artificial Intelligence Conference ('97-'98)
• 2nd-3rd International Conference and Exhibition on the Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining  ('98-'99)
• Intelligent Data Analysis '99
• European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ('02)
• Starting AI Researchers Symposium (STAIRS) '02
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ('05)
• 13th Conference on Logic for Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR 2006)
  

• Applied Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning (as action editor)
  
• Intelligent Data Analysis

• Machine Learning, special issue on Statistical Relational Learning and Multi-Relational Data Mining
  

Referee for:

• Machine Learning
• Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
  
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Algorithmica
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• Neural Networks
• INFORMS Journal on Computing
• Bioinformatics
• Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
• Chemosphere
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
• Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

• 2004-2010 : Board member of ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
• 2004-2006: Member of the advisory board for the ECML/PKDD conferences
• 2009, 2010: Member of Veni evaluation panel for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• 2010: Member of research evaluation panel for the Academy of Finland
• 2010-: Member of Data Mining Advisory Board of e-LICO (FP7 European project)

• 9th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-97), Aix-en-Provence; August 10-22, 1997
• 1st International Summer School on the use of Inductive Logic Programming for Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Prague, 15-17 september  1997
• University of York, Department of Computer Science, December 8-12, 1997
• Institut Jozef Stefan (Dept. for Intelligent Systems), Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 30 - April 23, 1999
• University of Bristol, Department of Computer Science, November 18-19, 1999
• Universidad del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, May 2-12, 2000
• Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg, Germany,  September 20-22, 2000
• Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria, March 25-30, 2001
• Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, UK, April 8-12, 2002
• Institut Jozef Stefan (Dept. for Intelligent Systems), Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 28 - November 8, 2002
• University of Wales, Aberystwyth, July 18 - August 1, 2004
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 24 - November 20, 2004
  
• University of Siena, July 12-19, 2005
• University of Rennes I, Rennes, France, May 2-31, 2006
  
• Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Dec 1, 2006 - July 31, 2007
  
• Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France, Nov 12-Dec 11, 2009
• University of Waikato, Waikato, New-Zealand, Feb 3 - Mar 4, 2011

• Wim Van Laer, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 2002
• Bart Goethals, Transnationale Universiteit Limburg, December 2002
• Raymond Kosala, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, July 2003
• Patrick Glenisson, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 2004
• Bart Hamers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, June 2004
• Nico Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, October 2004
• Peter Goethals, Universiteit Gent, January 2005
  
• Iris Hendrickx, Universiteit Tilburg, November 2005
• Qizheng Sheng, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, November 2005
• Elisa Fromont, Universite de Rennes, December 2005
• Xiaobing Wu, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2006
  
• Nuno Fonseca, Universidade do Porto, October 2006
• Danny Weyns, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, October 2006
• Kurt Schelfthout, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, November 2006
• Koen Mertens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 2006
• Frizo Janssens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 2007
• Bernard Zenko, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2007
  
• Simon Rawles, University of Bristol, UK, June 2007
  
• Eveline Hoekx, Hasselt University, December 2007
  
• Stefan Raeymaekers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, January 2008
• Rayner Alfred, University of York, March 2008
• Gerolf Vanacker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, July 2008
• Willem Waegeman, Universiteit Gent, October 2008
• Edgar de Graaf, Universiteit Leiden, October 2008
• Niels Landwehr, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, February 2009
• Grant Anderson, University of Waikato, May 2009
• Albrecht Zimmermann, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 2009
• Goele Hollanders, Universiteit Hasselt, September 2009
• Bjorn Bringmann, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, September 2009
• Peter Hofgesang, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2009
• Mike Matton, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, November 2009
• Linda Peelen, Universiteit van Amsterdam, November 2009
• Tim Cocx, Universiteit Leiden, December 2009
• Peter van der Putten, Universiteit Leiden, January 2010
• Eric-Wubbo Lameijer, Universiteit Leiden, January 2010
• Koen Deschacht, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 2010
• Arne Koopman, Universiteit Utrecht, May 2010
• Davy Sannen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, August 2010
• Kenneth Hoste, Universiteit Gent, September 2010

• Jan Struyf, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 2004
• Celine Vens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, March 2007
  
• Anneleen Van Assche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, January 2008
  
• Koen Deforche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, March 2008
  
• Daan Fierens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, July 2008
  
• Tom Croonenborghs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, September 2009
• Fabian Guiza, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, September 2009
• Robby Goetschalckx, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, September 2009
• Joaquin Vanschoren, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 2010
• Leander Schietgat, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, May 2010
• Kristof Theys, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, December 2010

• PhD student grant from the IWT, Belgium, 1995-1998
• Postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), 1999-2008
• VIDI grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), 2006-2011

• "Jos Schepens Memorial Fund" prize for PhD thesis, 1999, shared with L. Dehaspe
  
• Best demonstration award at ECML/PKDD 2009, for the demo "A Community-based Platform for Machine Learning Experimentation" by J. Vanschoren and H. Blockeel

• PRICAI-2008, 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 16-19, 2008.
• IDAMAP 2009, Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Verona, Italy, July 19, 2009.
• Bio-logical 2009, Workshop on Logic Based Approaches in Bioinformatics, Reggio Emilia, Italy, December 12, 2009.

(Co-)Promotor of, or major involvement in

• Inductieve Kennisbanken (Inductive knowledge bases) (K.U.Leuven GOA, 1/2003-12/2007)
• Machine Learning for data mining and its applications (FWO, WOG, 1/2002-12/2006)
• Sol-Eu-Net: Data Mining and Decision Support for Business Competitiveness: a European Virtual Enterprise (European project, 1/2000-3/2003)
• Investigating the determinants of therapy response in HIV infected patients using a data mining approach, with special focus on drug resistance and virus subtype (Bilateral collaboration Flanders - South Africa; K.U.Leuven, 1/2002-12/2003)
• Probabilistic logic learning (FWO, 1/1/2005-31/12/2008)
• Foundations of Inductive Databases for Data Mining (FWO, 1/1/2006-31/12/2009)
• Graph Logic (FWO, 1/1/2007-31/12/2010)
• Annotated Graph Mining (NWO VIDI grant, 1/12/2006-30/11/2011)
• Probabilistic logic learning (K.U.Leuven GOA, 1/2008-12/2012)
  
• Efficient microprocessor design using machine learning (FWO, 1/1/2008-31/12/2011)
• Learning from data originating from evolution (FWO, 1/1/2009-31/12/2012)
• Multi-objective compiler optimization space exploration (FWO, 1/1/2010-31/12/2013)
• Declarative Experimentation (FWO, 1/1/2011-31/12/2014)

• ILP2: Inductive Logic Programming II (European project, 1/1996-12/1998)
• ALADIN: Applied Logic for Advanced Data mining In iNdustry (European project, 10/1998-9/2000)
• Query languages for database mining (FWO,  1/1999-12/2002)
• Integrated drug/target discovery and development through integration of data mining techniques. Application in virology research and development. (IWT, 10/2001-9/2003)
• Investigating the determinants of therapy response in HIV-infected patients, using a relational data mining approach.  (VIS, K.U.Leuven)
• Using machine learning methods for annotation of transposable elements.  (Bilateral project, K.U.Leuven, 10/2010-9/2012)

• ILPnet2 : Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming  (9/1998-8/2002)
• Eunite : European Network on Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems (1/2001-12/2003)
• KDNet : European Knowledge Discovery Network of Excellence (1/2002-6/2004)
• Declarative Methods in Computer Science (FWO, WOG, 1/2001-12/2005, 1/2006-12/2010)
• Machine learning for data mining and its applications (FWO, WOG, 1/2002-12/2008, 1/2009-12/2013)

List of publications