Competitions
- Daniele Lunghi and Gian Marco Paldino: 2nd place in the AI Cybersecurity Deephack
- Pascal Tribel: 2nd price in the Seismic Monitoring and Analysis Challenge (ECML-PKDD 2024)
- Gianluca Bontempi: Received funding from “Fond de financement issu des 10km de L’ULB”
- Yann-Aël Le Borgne: Big Data Technologies Horizon Prize (2nd place), EU’s Research and Innovation Programme, Horizon 2020 (November 12, 2018, Vienna)
- Souhaib Ben Taieb: IEEE Power & Energy Society Award (4th place), Global Energy Forecasting Competition (2012)
- Gianluca Bontempi: 2nd place in International Competition on Time Series (Leuven, Belgium, 1998)
- Gianluca Bontempi: Runner-up in Third Erudit Data Analysis Competition (Aachen, Germany, 1999)
Conference Awards
- Axel Abels: Best paper award at the International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2020)
- Axel Abels: Best thesis abstract award at the 30th Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC 2018, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands)
- Sofia Papadimitriou: Best Talk award, Benelux Bioinformatics Conference 2017 (BBC17, Leuven, Belgium)
- Ashley Conard: RCSB PDB poster prize at ISMB/ECCB 2015
- G. Bontempi, Y. Le Borgne and J. De Stefani: Honorable Mention Research Paper at 2017 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA ’17)
- Tom Lenaerts: Multiple best poster awards (ECCB 2010, ESTOOL Symposium 2010)
- Jacopo De Stefani: Best paper award at MIDAS 2017
- Tom Lenaerts: Most innovative paper award, First Summer school on Computation Intelligence (Limerick, Ireland, 2001)
- Gianluca Bontempi: Best paper award in Eleventh Belgium-Netherlands Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC’99, Maastricht)
PhD Thesis Awards
- Souhaib Ben Taieb: Solvay Award for PhD Thesis in Computer Science (2015)
- Catharina Olsen: Solvay Award for PhD Thesis in Computer Science (2014)
- Benjamin Haibe-Kains: Solvay Award for PhD Thesis in Computer Science (2010)
Master Thesis Awards
- Juan Sebastian Gerard Salinas: Prix Raymond Devillers du meilleur Memoire 2019-2020
- Théo Verhelst: Prix Raymond Devillers for Master Thesis in Computer Science (2019)
- Souhaib Ben Taieb: Solvay Award for Master Thesis in Computer Science (2010)
Best Graduate Students
- Nichita Bozga (2019/20)
- Giulia Massimetti: Prix Babbage for outstanding academic achievement (2022)
- Martin Colot: Prix Babbage for outstanding academic achievement (2022)