The AI4E Team

We are always willing to discuss with prospective PhD students who share our research interests. Feel free to go through some of our team's recent papers to get a grasp of what our research deals with, before contacting us. Also, note that we take the liberty to ignore generic emails that do not show a genuine interest in and understanding about the research area.

PhD Alumni

Gargya Gokhale, "Deployable data-driven control algorithms for residential demand response: A study on specialized, problem-specific neural architectures" (graduated 10/2024; co-supervised with prof. Bert Claessens; currently at Eniris, Ghent, Belgium)

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Jonas Van Gompel, "Monitoring of photovoltaic systems and forecasting of power system imbalance using neural networks" (graduated 08/2024; co-supervised with prof. Bert Claessens; currently at Centrica, Antwerp, Belgium)

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Manu Lahariya, "Physics-informed machine learning based identification and reinforcement learning based control of flexibility in smart grid applications" (graduated 02/2023; co-supervised with prof. Bert Claessens; post-graduation job as AI Consultant at DLL, Eindhoven, The Netherlands); currently lead software engineer - quantum machine learning at Pasqal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Nasrin Sadeghianpourhamami, "Data-driven statistical modeling and reinforcement learning based control of flexibility in domestic and electric vehicle power consumption" (graduated 12/2018; post-graduation job as Senior Smart Grid/AI Scientist and later Director of Machine Learning at BluWave-ai, Canada; currently Senior Machine Learning Scientist at TeraWatt Infrastructure, Canada)

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Leen De Baets, "Machine learning for non-intrusive load monitoring" (graduated 04/2018; co-supervised with prof. Tom Dhaene; post-graduation job as data scientist at Crunch Analytics, Belgium)

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Kevin Mets, "Optimal and scalable management of smart power grids with electric vehicles" (graduated 03/2015; post-graduation job as data scientist at Sentiance, Belgium; currently Assistant Professor at University of Antwerp, Belgium)

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