CV Jan Ramon

General

Address

Kapelberg 7
3001 Heverlee
Belgium

Degrees

• 1992-1994 : Bachelor in physics
• 1992-1997 : Master of science in computerscience
• 2002 : PhD in applied sciences, computerscience

Professional activities

• 01/10/1997 - 31/12/1998 : Phd. student, supported by European Esprit LTR 20237 ILP2 Project
• 01/01/1999 - 31/12/2002 : Phd. student, supported by Flemish Institute for the Promotion of Science and Technological Research in Industry (IWT).
• 01/01/2003 - 30/09/2003 : Post-doctoral researcher, research fund of the K.U.Leuven
• 01/10/2003 - 30/09/2006 : Post-doctoral researcher (FWO).
• 01/10/2006 - 30/09/2009 : Post-doctoral researcher (FWO).
• 01/10/2009 - 30/11/2009 : Post-doctoral researcher K.U.Leuven
• 01/12/2009 - 30/11/2014 : ERC principal investigator

Research activities

• clustering and instance based learning
• pattern mining
• reinforcement learning and active learning
• probabilistic inference
• graph theory

• QSAR
• intensive care
• HIV
• computational biology

Publications

• Publication list generated by Lirias
• In FWO format

Stays in international research groups

• May 2003, 5 weeks, university Paris8 (FR), with Tristan Cazenave, on search methods
• July-August 2005, 7 weeks, at the computational biology lab, university of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK with Ross King on a coherent laser control project.
• November 2005, 5 weeks, at Fraunhofer Institute, Bonn, Germany, with Tamas Horvath, on efficient graph mining methods.

• Nato ASI course on Bioinformatics, October 2001, Italy.

Grants and projects

1. ERC Starting Grant 240186 'MiGraNT': Mining Graphs and Networks, a Theory-based approach, 12/2009-11/2014
2. FWO (Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders) grant “Learning in large relational databases with an application in intensive care medicine”, 01/2008 – 12/2011, joined with the Intensive Care Department, our budget: 268143 Euro [Home]
3. FWO grant "Learning from data originating from evolution", 01/2009-12/2012
4. FWO grant ``Graph logic: Representation, Inference and Learning'', 01/2007 - 12/2010, joined with the Hasselt University, Theoretical computer science group, our budget 238980 Euro. This project investigates the integration of graphs and logic in a machine learning context. Results may provide useful inspiration for task C2.4. [Home]
5. IDO interdisciplinary research grant of K.U.Leuven ``Developing significant predictive models in critical illness'', 10/2004 - 09/2007, joined with the Intensive Care Department and the Bioscience Engineering Faculty of the K.U.Leuven, total budget 725000 Euro [Home]
6. ICIS ('Interactive Collaborative Information Systems' program, Dutch government) grant ``Multi-Agent Relational Reinforcement Learning'', 08/2006-07/2010, joined with the University of Maastricht, NL, supporting 1 PhD student [Home]

Phd Students

• Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani
• Ashraf Masood Kibriya
• Yuyi Wang
• Samrat Roy
• Thomas Fannes
• Eduardo De Paola Costa
• Kurt De Grave
• Leander Schietgat (defended 2010)
• Marc Ponsen
• Robby Goetschalck (defended Sept 2009)
• Fabian Guiza (defended Sept 2009)
• Tom Croonenborghs (defended Sept 2009)
• Daan Fierens (defended July 2008)

Program committees

• 2011
  • ICML 2011
  • ECML 2011
  • ILP 2011
  • KD-HCM 2011
  • SDM 2011
• 2010
  • AISTATS 2010
  • ILP 2010
  • ECML/PKDD 2010
  • AAAI 2010
  • ICDM 2010
  • MedInfo 2010
  • ICML 2010
• 2009
  • PAKKD 2009 : 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Bangkok, Thailand, 27–30 April 2009
  • Maliob 2009, LION 3 satellite workshop on machine learning and intelligent optimization in bioinformatics, Trento, Italy, 14-18 January 2009
• 2008
  • ICDM
  • BNAIC
  • ECML/PKDD 2008
  • ILP2008
  • Benelearn 2008
  • Dawak 2008
  • KES 2008
  • MLG 2008
  • SBIA 2008
• 2007
  • ECML/PKDD 2007
  • AICOM Special Issue on "Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering"
  • MLG 2007
  • Dawak'07
  • KES'07 special session on Pattern Recognition in Graphical Domains
  • BNAIC 2007
  • Benelearn'07
• 2006
  • ILP2006
  • ECML/PKDD 2006
  • CG 2006
  • BeNeLearn 2006
  • Dawak 2006
• 2005
  • PKDD2005 (PC member)
  • ILP2005
  • ICML2005 (PC member)
  • IJCAI 2005 (reviewer)
  • MGTS'2005
  • ECML/PKDD discovery challenge 2005
  • BNAIC'2005
  • LAMAS'2005
• 2004
  • BNAIC 2004
  • ILP 2004
  • ECML/PKDD discovery challenge (2004)
• 2003
  • BNAIC 2003
  • ECML/PKDD 2003 workshop on Graph, Tree and Sequence mining

Refereeing

• Editorial board
  • Member of editorial board of Machine Learning Journal (MLJ)
• Journals
  • Machine Learning, 2006 (2)
  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
  • Advanced Engineering Informatics (AdvEI), special issue on applications elegible for data mining (2006)
  • Machine Learning, ILP2004 special issue (2005)
  • IEEE SMC (2005)
  • IEEE TNN (2005)
  • Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA)
  • Theoretical Computer Science (TCS)
• Conferences
  • Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2006)
  • International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming: 1999, 2000, 2002
  • European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML): 2001, 2002
  • Logic for Programming, Artificial intelligence and Reasoning (LPTA) : 2002
  • International Workshop on Logic Based Program Development and Transformation (LOPSTR) : 2002
  • The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) : ICDM2002
  • Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence: 2002