Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

SMASH Associate partner

KU Leuven boasts a rich tradition of education and research that dates back six centuries. The university’s basic research orientation has always been and will remain fundamental research. At the same time, the university remains vigilantly open to contemporary cultural, economic and industrial realities, as well as to the community’s needs and expectations.

KU Leuven is currently by far the largest university in Belgium in terms of research funding and expenditure (EUR 532 million in 2020), and is a charter member of LERU. KU Leuven conducts fundamental and applied research in all academic disciplines with a clear international orientation. In the Times Higher Education ranking KU Leuven is ranked as the 14h European university, while in the Reuters Top 100 of the World’s most innovative institutions, KU Leuven is listed as the first European university, for the fourth year in a row.

https://www.kuleuven.be/english/kuleuven

Supervisors

• Hendrik Blockeel – Full Professor, KUL 1.1 Learning from complex data and computational scientific discovery 1.3 Beyond supervised learning 5.2 Research in explainable AI in personalised medicine
• Jesse Davis – Full Professor, KUL 1.1 Learning from complex data and computational scientific discovery 1.3 Beyond supervised learning 5.2 Research in explainable AI in personalised medicine