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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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FWOSBO46: SBO Project: CTRL schemes merged with eXplainable AI for t(h)rustworthy control of physical dynamic systems (CTRLxAI=T(H)RUST)
Nowe, A. (Administrative Promotor), Steckelmacher, D. (PI (Promotor, Principal Investigator)), Efthymiadis, K. (PI (Promotor, Principal Investigator)) & Schietgat, L. (PI (Promotor, Principal Investigator))
1/10/22 → 30/09/26
Project: Applied
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FWOTM821: Leveraging environment structure to learn reusable skills for autonomous agents
Nowe, A. (Administrative Promotor) & Steckelmacher, D. (Collaborator)
1/10/16 → 31/12/20
Project: Fundamental
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CM-GP: Critic-Moderated Genetic Programming
Deproost, S. (Developer) & Steckelmacher, D. (Developer), 1 Jan 2025, (In preparation)Research output: Non-textual form › Software
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Definition of AI
Steckelmacher, D. & Bogaerts, B., 27 Oct 2025, The European Artificial Intelligence Act: Promises and Perils?. Springer Nature, p. 81-103 23 p. (Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS); vol. 78).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Specialist › peer-review
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Explainable RL Policies by Distilling to Locally-Specialized Linear Policies with Voronoi State Partitioning
Deproost, S., Steckelmacher, D. & Nowe, A., 19 Nov 2025, In: Proceedings of the Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence. p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference paper
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Reinforcement Learning for Model-Free Control of a Cooling Network with Uncertain Future Demands
Willems, J., Steckelmacher, D., Schoulte, W., Depraetere, B., Kikken, E., Bey-Temsamani, A. & Nowe, A., 2025, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. ICINCO ed. Scitepress, Vol. 1. p. 59-70 12 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Human-readable programs as the actor of a Reinforcement Learning agent using Critic-Moderated Evolution
Deproost, S., Steckelmacher, D. & Nowe, A., 17 Nov 2024, Proceedings of the 2024 Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence (BNVKI-AIABN), p. 1-18 14 p. (BNAIC Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper
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Prizes
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Best Demonstration Award
Steckelmacher, D. (Recipient), Plisnier, H. (Recipient) & Nowe, A. (Recipient), 8 Nov 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best Paper Award
Deproost, S. (Recipient), Steckelmacher, D. (Recipient) & Nowe, A. (Recipient), 20 Nov 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Best paper award (Dutch Foundation of Neural networks 2021)
Liu, G. (Recipient), De Winter, J. (Recipient), Vanderborght, B. (Recipient), Nowe, A. (Recipient) & Steckelmacher, D. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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BNAIC SKBS Best Demo Award
Steckelmacher, D. (Recipient), Plisnier, H. (Recipient), Roijers, D. M. (Recipient) & Nowé, A. (Recipient), 9 Nov 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fleurice Mercier Prize
Steckelmacher, D. (Recipient), 1 Jul 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Optimistic Reinforcement Learning-Based Skill Insertions for Task and Motion Planning
Liu, G. (Speaker), De Winter, J. (Speaker), Durodié, Y. (Speaker), Steckelmacher, D. (Speaker), Nowe, A. (Speaker) & Vanderborght, B. (Speaker)
26 Sept 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Synergistic Task and Motion Planning With Reinforcement Learning-Based Non-Prehensile Actions
Liu, G. (Speaker), De Winter, J. (Contributor), Steckelmacher, D. (Contributor), Hota, R. K. (Contributor), Nowe, A. (Contributor) & Vanderborght, B. (Contributor)
2 Oct 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Shepherd: Reinforcement Learning as a Service withDistributed Execution
Steckelmacher, D. (Speaker), Plisnier, H. (Contributor) & Nowe, A. (Contributor)
10 Nov 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Introduction to Reinforcement Learning, its uses and ethical considerations
Steckelmacher, D. (Speaker)
30 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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Self-Transfer Learning
Plisnier, H. (Speaker), Steckelmacher, D. (Contributor) & Nowe, A. (Contributor)
3 May 2021 → 4 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
Press/Media
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How the VUB AI Experience Center links AI research done at the VUB with Brussels companies
18/02/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Prime EUC minister Ursula von der Leyen visits the VUB AI Experience Center
Steckelmacher, D. & Plisnier, H.
18/02/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Kan je een computer leren fietsen?
Nowe, A., Coppens, Y. & Steckelmacher, D.
22/03/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Thesis
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Reinforcement Learning in Complex Environments: Evaluating Algorithms on Image Classification
Steckelmacher, D. ((PhD) Student), Vrancx, P. (Co-promotor) & Lenaerts, T. (Promotor), 17 Jun 2016Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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