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Updates from the project
Workshop “Combining Infectious Disease Modelling and AI”
14/09/2026 – Learning Theater, VUB Campus Etterbeek
In September, many people from different backgrounds gathered in Brussels at the VUB for a workshop on disease modelling and AI, organized by a collaboration of students from the VUB AI Lab, University of Antwerp and UHasselt. Pieter Libin gave a talk on the use infectious disease modelling and the role of reinforcement learning in field. Other interesting lectures were on Science communication under AI and how AI can work together with more traditional epi-models. The day was concluded with a panel discussion moderated by Phillipe Beutels.
Advisory board meeting
13/02/2026 – VUB AI Lab experience center
On the 16th of March, the advisory board of the project came together to discuss the first 6 months of the project. The various partners of the project, scientific institutions, government organizations, health data experts and many more, got to know the researchers working on the project. They gave presentations on their ongoing work and the partners of the advisory board gave comments which led to interesting discussions, pushing our work to be as relevant as possible.
