Artificial Intelligence
and Data Analytics
Research Group
Ghent University - IDlab

About AIDA

The Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (AIDA) group at Ghent University is led by Prof. Tijl De Bie. Currently, the group consists of 9 PhD students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and 2 professors. The group is also part of the larger Internet Technology and Data Science Lab (IDLab) a joint research initiative between the University of Antwerp and Ghent University. The research at AIDA covers a wide range of topics in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. More specifically, we conduct research on graph and text mining, representation learning, generative AI, recommender systems, fairness and bias, data visualization and music information retrieval. The group is currently funded by Prof. De Bie’s FWO Odysseus Type 1 Grant, the Flemish Government under the "Onderzoeksprogramma Artificiële Intelligentie (AI) Vlaanderen" programme, FWO and BOF Individual Fellowship Grants, and several FWO projects. If you are interested in joining our group please check out our Contact section.

People

Current members:

Former members:

  • Prof. Dr. Dieter De Witte
  • Dr. Florian Adriaens
  • Dr. Junning Deng
  • Dr. Len Vande Veire
  • Dr. Maryam Fanaeepour
  • Dr. Paolo Simeone
  • Dr. Robin Vandaele
  • Dr. Xi Chen

Research Topics

We have broad expertise in ML, AI, and Data Mining.
Specific topics we have made substantial contributions to include:

AI for HR and the Labour Market

Data Visualization and Pattern Mining

Graph Mining

AI Ethics and Fairness

Large Language Models

Recommender Systems

Research Output

A list of our most recent publications is shown below as well as some featured projects.
For more Open-source code check out our GitHub.

List of Publications:

Code & Data:


News & Events

Featured news and events organized by AIDA. For other news and research articles, head to our Blog!

Featured News:


Conferences and Workshops:


Summer Schools, Tutorials and Keynotes:

Open Positions

Are you passionate about Machine Learning and Data Mining and want to pursue an academic career? Then consider joining our Team! We always have open positions, like these:


PhD Position - AI & Data Visualization

Postdoctoral Position - ERC Project Vigilia

Multiple PhD Positions - ERC Project Vigilia

Contact Us

We currently have PhD and Postdoc opened positions, if you want to join our team contact us at:
tijl.debie@ugent.be