Advisors, Mentors, Collaborators

• I worked as an intern at Oracle in Barcelona with Jan Van Sas, Fabrice Nauze and Sergiu Nisioi
• I worked as an intern at Nuance Communications in Aachen with Stefan Hahn
• At Contract.fit, I receive industrial supervision from Bertrand Anckaert
• My graduate advisors at KU Leuven are prof. Marie-Francine Moens and prof. Matthew Blaschko

Master thesis supervision

Since in 2016 I have had a wonderful master thesis internship at Oracle in Barcelona thanks to Jan Van Sas, I want to similarly give back to the community. From multiple universities in Belgium (and hopefully soon abroad) I have organised and helped guide each year multiple master thesis internships:

Successfully completed :

• From Classical Computer Vision To State Of The Art Methods For Document Analysis And Classification - Athar Saleem - MAI ECS - 2017-2018
• Creating process standardization at Contract.fit to support sustainable growth - Michelle Vanassche - MAI SLT - 2018-2019
• Machine learning based classification pipeline for generic document types: An end-to-end real-world system for coarse-grained document classification - Kamen Zhekov - VUB M-CS - 2019-2020
• Table Detection and Data Extraction in Financial Documents - Fan Yang - MAI SLT - 2019-2020
• Machine-Learning-Based Candidate Selection for Information Extraction - Philemon Van Helden - VUB M-CS - 2019-2020
• Prediction Calibration for Automated Document Categorization - Sudhanshu Gupta - MAI SLT - 2020-2021
• Multi Modal Document Understanding using Graph Neural Networks - Shikhar Chauhan - MAI ECS - 2020-2021
• Optimizing ship detection efficiency in SAR images - Arthur Van Meerbeeck - KUL CS - 2021 - 2022
• Better Late than Never: Late Fusion for Document Classification - Yawen Zhao - MAI SLT - 2021-2022
• Optimizing Transformers for Production - Omar Hamed - MAI SLT - 2021-2022
• TA: Data Structures and Algorithms (2022-2023)

Grants

Below is a list of grants & funding that I helped secure:

• Company innovation support grant HBC.2021.0787 for Leveraging document structure for improved document understanding (Contract.fit)
• Personal Baekeland grant HBC 2019.2604 for Intelligent Automation for AI-driven Document Understanding
• Company innovation grant HBC.2019.2376 for The development of a performant and user-friendly API self-service portal and word class classification modules (Contract.fit)
• Company innovation grant HBC.2017.0264 for Self-Learning Platform for Simplifying Data-intensive Client Interactions (Contract.fit)