Network

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

Tom Braekeleirs
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

Alexander Decruyenaere
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
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

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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

Tom Goffin
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

Piet Hoebeke
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

Lennart Martens
Prof. Lennart Martens

Affiliation: Ghent University - VIB

Interest/Expertise: I have experience with AI.

Expertise: Bio-informatics, proteomics, metabolomics, systems biology, Machine Learning

Björn Menten
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

Pim Pullens
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

Niki Rashidian
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