Work

Since March 2008, I work as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Antwerp, in Antwerp, Belgium. This department is part of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology.

Together with linguists and data miners, our current research project aims to develop data mining techniques that abstract from scientific literature in order to find, e.g., suitable genes with a high plausibility of having an effect on disease.

In order to accomplish this goal, academic content (as in relations between biological elements, processes, structures, ...) has to be text mined from the literature relevant to a specific disease or gene. Secondly, all of this data needs to be collected and organized in a workable format (graph, DB, ...). Thirdly, data mining algorithms have to find non-obvious but significant relations in the resulting graph, which can then be tested in the lab.

Tuesday October 1, 2008

We are sending out a press release of our recently accepted paper for the Journal of the Royal Society Interface, published October 1st 2008.

Tuesday March 4, 2008

The following is now out-dated:

I work at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. I'm currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher. I'm working at the department of Biomedical Technology, under supervision of professor Peter Hilbers. Learn more about my Research.

You can find my professional home page here

You can also read my Curriculum Vitae, and find information about my PhD Thesis.

Wednesday October 25, 2006

I've added an assignment for a course on "Computer Simulations and Biomedical Applications" I'm teaching.

Monday December 20, 2004

My Ph D research is going at a steady pace, I'm currently very busy writing down my dissertation. I hope to get everything done by the end of January 2005, so my jury can start reading. The current plans for my defense are in the first half of May.

Sunday February 22, 2004

I started collecting reviews of papers and books I'm reading in a new reviews section.

I added a description of Finite Markov Models.

Monday February 16, 2004

I'm currently at Schloss Dagstuhl, a castle in Germany that is used for computer science seminars. I'm staying here for a week for a seminar on the theory of evolutionary algorithms. You can find a log of my stay in the linked page.

Wednesday October 15, 2003

You can find the slides I'm using in my introductory course on genetic algorithms here (256KiB PDF file)

August 15, 2003

I've added an informative page about Rock-Paper-Scissors, one of the games I'm interested in in my PhD research.