
dr. Katja Batens
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Speech-language pathology

Shadi Bazazordeh
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Fabrication and characterization of an artificial lithographic model for corneal drug screening

Jade Bokma
Affiliation: Ghent University - Veterinary Practice Venhei
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Animal welfare, Mycoplasma bovis, Antimicrobial use, Ruminants, Respiratory diseases

dr. Sarah Bonte
Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Cancer immunotherapy, computational cytometry, machine learning models for clinical applications

Lennert Bontinck
Affiliation: Ghent University - Imec
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Deep Learning for ECG Arrhythmia Forecasting

prof. Sarah Boone
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Professor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship at UGent’s Faculty of Economics and experienced advisor in digital health and AI. Specialized in go-to-market strategies for complex markets, supporting the adoption of transformative and impactful innovations.

Leen Bouckaert
Affiliation: Artevelde University of Applied Sciences
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Implementation in health care, adoption of health care workers

Prof. Tom Braekeleirs
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Impact of AI on people, acceptable AI, applications of AI in healthcare

Lieselot Burggraeve
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Clinical Affairs Medical Devices

prof. Arne Burssens
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Foot and ankle surgery, Weightbearing CT, Hindfoot deformity, Tendinpathy, Ligament injuries

Stan Callewaert
Affiliation: Squire BV
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Studied informatics engineering with multiple elective courses and AI thesis. Worked for 6 years for ML6 (biggest AI only company in Belgium). Currently CEO of Squire (AI for health)

Prof. Sofie Claeys
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Laryngology

dr. Tinne Claeys
Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Computational biology, machine learning, deep learning, LLMs

Thomas Cuelenaere
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital - HOGENT
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Nursing science, emergency care, intensive care, health care management, health care innovation
prof. Kirsten Colpaert
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Clinical Decision Support, Machine Learning, (Generative) AI, data quality

Prof. Femke De Backere
Affiliation: Ghent University - Imec
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Knowledge-based systems, designed to capture the knowledge of human experts to support decision-making, with a focus on personalization and context-awareness.
Dirk De Beule
Affiliation: Ghent University Hosptial
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: IT & nursing science

Prof. Mieke De Bruyne
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Endodontology, ergonomics, dentistry

Paul De Buck
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Physiotherapy

dr. Arnaud De Clercq
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Antibiotics, geriatrics, emergency medicine
dr. Lore De Greve
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: UGent policy officer for AI and Research

Kristof De Mey
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Sports and health tech innovation, business development

prof. Kathleen De Preter
Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB
Interest/Expertise: I have interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Genomics, bioinformatics, liquid biopsies, single cell analysis, biomarker studies, DNA and RNA sequencing, Computational deconvolution

dr. Michiel De Proost
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Bioethics

Prof. Guy De Tré
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Trustful, explainable AI. Data veracity.

Eva de Vries
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Orthopaedics

Matthias De Wachter
Affiliation: Ibis.AI
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: 25 years experience in AI, 8 years in healthcare NLP/AI

dr. Chloë De Witte
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Innovation and valorisation in health(care)

Prof. Dieter De Witte
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: At UGent-IDLab, we work with Computer Vision, LLMs,... on applied AI use cases. We enrich image collections (annotations) and look for new interactions: we make them searchable, we add dialogue, etc

Lieselot Declercq
Affiliation: Ghent University, D-Teach
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Instructional sciences, co-founder D-Teach

dr. Alexander Decruyenaere
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Synthetic data, deep generative models, causal machine learning

Prof. Johan Decruyenaere
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Machine learning, genAI, decision support and synthetic data

dr. Philippe Decruyenaere
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Diffuus grootcellig B-cellymfoom (DLBCL), Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), cell-free RNA, liquid biopsy, lymphoma

prof. Sven Degroeve
Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, AI Agents

dr. Isabelle Dehaene
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Prediction and obstetrics

Prof. Thomas Demeester
Affiliation: Ghent University - Imec
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Natural language modelling (information extraction, LLMs), predictive modelling (classical machine learning, neural networks design), neural representation learning, synthetic data generation, neuro-symbolic reasoning, causal machine learning

Mieke Deschepper
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Applying Machine learning (prediction, classification) on hospital-wide populations and specific population of critical care medicine. Exploring validation of Large Language Models.

Wim Dewispelaere
Affiliation: Ghent University - Imec
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: IMEC WP, business developer Faculteit Ingenieurswetenschappen en Architectuur Vakgroep Informatietechnologie

dr. Annelies Emmnaeel
Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Computational cytometry analysis in developing pipelines to automatically diagnose patients with PIDs

Prof. Celine Everaert
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Liquid biopsy, transcriptomics, cancer, big data
dr. Maarten Glibert
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Dentistry

Prof. Tom Goffin
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Health law

prof. Bryan Gonzales
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Metabolomics, Proteomics, public health, child nutrition, maternal and child health, Big Data, Biostatistics

Flore Gorduyn
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital - NexusHealth
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: NexusHealth

prof. Piet Hoebeke
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have interest in working with AI.
Expertise: Pediatric urology

Morgane Janssens
Affiliation: TES
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: green hydrogen production

dr. Chloé Kastoer
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Slaap-snurkpathologie, laryngologie slikproblemen, pediatrische nko-problemen, slaapgebonden ademhalingsstoornissen bij kinderen

dr. Valery Labarque
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Education innovation

Bene Lamote
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Veterinary science
John Lebon
Affiliation: Miles Ahead Advisory Partner - Flanders Technology & Innovation Health Tech Advisor
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: business intelligence, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare

Prof. Simon Malfait
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Research towards acceptance of nurses towards technology and its impact of implementation, cost-effectiveness of AI/technology on nursing activity, research on how AI can help nursing research, implementation and evidence-based nursing

Luna Maris
Affiliation: Ghent University - XEOS Medical
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Computer Vision, Image classification and Segmentation, Deep Learning

Prof. Lennart Martens
Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Bio-informatics, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, Machine Learning

Prof. Björn Menten
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Genomics, prenatal genetic testing, preimplantation genetic testing, whole genome sequencing, long read sequencing

Prof. Heidi Mertes
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Ethics of AI in healthcare

dr. Diego Nieves Avendano
Affiliation: Ghent University - Imec
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Deep learning, (Semi/Un)-supervised learning, Bayessian Optimization

dr. Sofia Palmieri
Affiliation: Ghent University - European Institute for Innovation through Health Data
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Health law, AI Governance, AI liability, patients' rights
dr. Jonathan Peck
Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Computer vision and robustness

Han Peetermans
Affiliation: Ibis.AI
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: ibis.ai delivers advanced clinical language understanding for hospitals.

dr. Dries Pieters
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Orthopaedics, Human movement and sports sciences, Rehabilitation sciences
Jan Pirard
Affiliation: Healthcare AI pioneer
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Machine Learning development

Prof. Pim Pullens
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: quantitative imaging biomarkers, imaging data acquisition, imaging data curation, image processing, segmentation

Guido Rasschaert
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital: Patient Advisory Board for scientific research , PAWO UZ Gent ( HIRUZ )
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Patient Advisory Board for scientific research

Prof. Niki Rashidian
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Surgical Oncology, Surgical Education, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Hepatobiliary Surgery

dr. Saskia Roggeman
Affiliation: PC Sint-Jan Baptist, Zelzate
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Ecological, ethological, physiological, environmental, ecotoxicological and Urological research

dr. Pieter Rondou
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Cancer research, molecular biology, cancer biology, research communication, research coordination, event management

Lode Sabbe
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital - Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: using AI in daily and clinical practice within the healthcare sector - rehabilitation sector

prof. Sigrid Sterckx
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Bioethics

prof. Thomas Ternaud
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hosptial - Imec
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Computational Neuroscience, ultrasound neuromodulation, electrostimulation, neural engineering

dr. Kevin Titeca
Affiliation: EMBL
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: proteomics, lipedomics

An Van den Broecke
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: IP & Licensing manager UGent, Technology transfer

Prof. Jimmy Van den Eynden
Affiliation: Ghent University - CRIG
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Computational cancer genomics, bioinformatics, data science, application of machine learning models for genomic predictions

Katya Van Driessche
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Data protection officer

dr. Matthias Van Heetvelde
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Bioinformatics, non-coding RNA, medical genetics, hereditary cancer syndromes

Prof. Sofie Van Hoecke
Affiliation: Ghent University - Imec
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Design of machine learning and hybrid AI - incorporating domain/expert knowledge into the AI/ML - for diagnostics, Disease management and prediction - antibiotic therapy, migraine, MS, depression, neuromodulation, hip dysplasia, wounds, burning wounds

Ann Van Mele
Affiliation: Imec
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Health tech innovation, business development

Henri Van Overmeire
Affiliation: PointCaré
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Semantic artificial intelligence, knowledge graphs, critical care, anesthesiology, native machine learning

dr. Philippe Van Rompaey
Affiliation: Health innovation and research institute Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Innovation & valorisation in health(care)

Ophélie van Tulden
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Nursing science

Prof. Hans Van Vlierberghe
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Hepatocellular carcinoma, Liver transplantation, Liver diseases

Tom Vanacker
Affiliation: Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Kwaliteitscoördinator integrale kwaliteitszorg

Prof. Stefaan Vandenberghe
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: image formation and processing, denoising PET, SPECT and CT. One of the founders of Nuclivision.com

Prof. Barbara Vanderstraeten
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Medical radiation physics, radiotherapy, medical imaging

dr. Celine Vanhaverbeke
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: UGent Innovation officer

Louis Verdonckt
Affiliation: Cavell
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Using gen AI to reduce admin in healthcare to a minimum.

Prof. Bruno Verhasselt
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.
Expertise: Virology, HIV, herpes, microbiome, diagnostic applications of AI

dr. Lia Visintin
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Mycotoxins

dr. Basiel Weyers
Affiliation: Ghent University - Ghent University Hospital
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: Gynaecology

dr. Evi Wezenbeek
Affiliation: Ghent University
Interest/Expertise: I am interested in working with AI.
Expertise: virtual reality, human movement sciences