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Dirk Van den Poel
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Senior Full Professor of Data Analytics, Data Science, Big Data at Ghent University & Flanders Make.
Other interests: Aviation, avgeek, history, WWII.
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Honored to be #ISC25 Research Paper Chair (with Vice Chair Hatem Ltaief)! Proud of our strong program, record 3,585 attendees, quantum insights, & HPC truly is the engine of AI. Bring on ISC26!
June 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My personal favorite of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest #esc2025 #Eurovision #Eurovision2025: #MadeinSwitzerland

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Made in Switzerland at the First Semi-Final | Eurovision 2025 | #UnitedByMusic ​​🇨🇭
YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest
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May 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Today, we are at the 2025 Flanders Make Scientific Conference in Leuven. CVAMO also has several posters at the event. It’s a great event for scientific networking. #FlandersMake #ORMS #MANPROCAD #REMASC #CVAMO
February 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Great talk by Sander Dieleman (@sedielem, Google Deepmind and @UGent alumnus) at #NeurIPS2024 Workshops in Vancouver, BC (Canada) on autoregression vs diffusion for iterative refinement. Visit his great blog: sander.ai #NeurIPS #AI
December 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Friday’s keynote talk at the NeurIPS2024 conference is by Danica Kragic on “Learning for Interaction and Interaction for Learning” in Vancouver, BC (Canada). #NeurIPS #AI #robotics #FlandersMake
December 14, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Superb keynote by Lidong Zhou at the NeurIPS2024 conference in Vancouver, BC (Canada) on how systems thinking can help to overcome AI challenges. Scaling is so important for AI to work, but from a systems point of view, this is scary. #AI #NeurIPS #efficiency #trust #infusion
December 12, 2024 at 5:17 PM
According to Sepp Hochreiter (Linz) we are now at the end of the scaling up phase of AI. Subsequently, we move into the industrialization phase. Great morning keynote at the NeurIPS2024 conference in Vancouver, BC (Canada) ArtificialIntelligence NeurIPS DeepLearning AI DataScience NeuralNets
December 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Today’s Session of my Big Data Analytics Class at Ghent University is a guest lecture by Element61 professionals discussing ML projects in the real world. It has become a yearly tradition. #orms #DS4B #DataScience #DataAnalytics #Datalake #AzureDataFactory #orchestration tool #Azure
December 5, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Do you want to read on the latest research on customer experience (CX) in the Journal of Business Research titled: Customer Experiences and Coping Behaviors during Crisis Situations: The Role of Service Adaptation and Service Transformation. Link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1kBHhXj-jji0p
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December 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
In Today’s Session of my Big Data Analytics Class Brammert talks about the different roles in Data Management, scrum project management, ETL pipelines, repositories, medallion data architecture, CI/CD, orchestration, … #DataEngineering #DataScience #DataAnalytics #DataLake
November 28, 2024 at 8:20 AM
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In early December I will give the Blackett Lecture at the Royal Society in London. I've been thoroughly enjoying preparing my lecture and look forward to seeing many colleagues & friends. Many thanks to The OR Society for this honor www.theorsociety.com/ORS/ORS/Even...
Blackett Main - Blackett 2024
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November 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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New starter pack if you're looking for the #orms community on here: go.bsky.app/SvBND16

Also if you have recommendations of people to add, feel free to send them my way.
November 8, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Welcome to Bluesky!
ProfTHT is back on #Twitter! The non-toxic version of it, I mean! ;-)
November 16, 2024 at 4:48 PM

Ghent University’s “Data Science for Business” (DS4B) students contribute to WEngage's GenAi-Powered Email Handling tool.

A team of DS4B students alongside WEngage has developed an innovative AI-driven application.

wengage.eu/en/news/weng...

AI CS CX CustomerService Innovation DataScience
WEngage launches its own AI innovations for customer contact - WEngage
With proprietary AI solutions, WEngage improves customer interactions, increases efficiency and makes work more valuable for customer experts.
wengage.eu
November 8, 2024 at 7:01 PM
We have lift-off at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting in this beautiful convention center in Downtown Seattle, WA. Ready to learn lots of new things from our colleagues in #ORMS #DataScience #DataAnalytics #Analytics #AI #LLMs and networking @INFORMS @INFORMS2024
October 20, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Interesting pre-conference session by @dwavequantum on using quantum computing to solve large-scale discrete optimization problems at the 2024 @INFORMS Annual Meeting @INFORMS2024 #DataScience #orms
October 19, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 NSA lecture on YouTube after NARA digitized the footage. The lecture featured Hopper discussing future challenges of protecting information. arstechnica.com/science/2024...
We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on YouTube
The lecture featured Hopper discussing future challenges of protecting information.
arstechnica.com
August 30, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Last week, the 2024 Edition of the “Current DS4B Students (www.mma.UGent.be) Meet Alumni” event was held at Ghent University. Esther and Matthias shared their work experience in Data Analytics and beyond. #orms #PredictiveAnalytics #DataScience #HR #HRAnalytics #marketing
June 26, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Yesterday, CespeUGent organized a great event on “Generative AI in pharmaceutical manufacturing.” Thanks for the great panel discussion with experts from many pharmaceutical companies and #UGent professors. #orms #GenAI #AI #ArtificialInteligence #DataScience
June 6, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Again, the research day at our Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at #ugent is well-attended. The interesting session by dr. Louis Lippens on using generative AI in research attracted a big crowd. #GenAI
May 24, 2024 at 10:21 AM
On Thursday, we presented our demand forecasting model using machine learning in the #FlandersMake company showcase series at the Advanced Engineering 2024 event (Antwerp Expo). Thanks Evelien, Schuyler (both DS4B students: www.mma.ugent.be), Patrick, and Brecht (#WEngage). #orms #dataanalytics #ml
May 19, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Grisja Lobbestael (CEO at @FlandersMake) takes the stage at the Advanced Engineering 2024 Conference in Antwerp Expo. He talks on how #FlandersMake supports companies to be competitive. #manufacturing #production
May 16, 2024 at 10:45 AM
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I really enjoyed the first episode of Apple TV's "Franklin." Check out @jmadelman.bsky.social's review. 🗃️ slate.com/culture/2024...
I’m a Scholar of Ben Franklin. I Can’t Believe How Good Michael Douglas Is in the New Show.
Our most impersonated founder gets the star treatment.
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April 12, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Today, I’m attending the great pandas’ workshop at the #2024Analytics INFORMS Business Analytics Conference. #opensource rocks! #orms #Analytics @pandas_dev #pandas
April 14, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Great industry panel at INFORMS MAPD giving their opinions on trends in the analytics domain: Generative AI (FOMO and beyond), challenge translating mathematical results into business value, getting your data right is still key, 3 C’s: context collaboration and conscience #ORMS
April 13, 2024 at 6:12 PM