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Principal Investigator

Willem Waegeman

Associate Professor · Principal Investigator

  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Multi-target prediction
  • Machine learning for life sciences
willem.waegeman@ugent.be ORCID Google Scholar

Research

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, where he leads the BioML group. His research focuses on the development of machine learning methods for the life sciences, with particular interest in multi-target prediction, uncertainty quantification and probabilistic models.

In the news

Tutorial at the Northern Lights Deep Learning Conference
Tutorial

Tutorial on aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty at NLDL 2025

Willem Waegeman gave a tutorial on uncertainty in statistics and machine learning at the Arctic University of Norway.

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Figure from the Nature Plants publication
Publication

A framework for tracing timber following the Ukraine invasion

Our framework to verify the legality of wood was published in Nature Plants and supported a Belgian investigation into Russian wood imports.

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