Awards

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)