**Since February 2016 I am only partly employed at ULB. Sine then my main affiliation is with the University of Antwerp. [[https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/toon-calders/|Visit my page at the University of Antwerp]]**

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Chair Business Intelligence

Université Libre de Bruxelles ([[http://www.ulb.ac.be|ULB]])\\ 
Computer & Decision Engineering ([[http://code.ulb.ac.be/|CoDE]]) department\\ 
Web and Information Technologies ([[http://code.ulb.ac.be/wit.home.php|WIT]]) group\\ 
CP 165/15\\ 
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50\\ 
B-1050 Bruxelles\\ 

Tel: +32 2 650 37 51\\ 
Fax: +32-2-650 28 05\\ 
[[toon.calders@ulb.ac.be]]



===== Short Bio =====
  * In 1999, I graduated from the [[http://www.ua.ac.be|University of Antwerp]] with a diploma in Mathematics. 
  * I received my PhD in Computer Science from the same university in May 2003, in the database research group [[http://adrem.ua.ac.be/adrem|ADReM]]. 
  * From May 2003 until September 2006, I continued working in the ADReM group as a post-doctoral researcher. 
  * From October 2006 until November 2012, I was an assistant professor in the [[http://www.win.tue.nl/is/doku.php?id=start|Information Systems group]] at the [[http://www.tue.nl|Eindhoven University of Technology]]. 
  * From December 2012 on, I am "Chargé de Cours" (Associate Professor) at the [[http://www.ulb.ac.be|Université Libre De Bruxelles]] in the [[http://cs.ulb.ac.be/public/start|CoDE]] research group.
  * Since February 2016 I am only partly employed at ULB. Sine then my main affiliation is with the University of Antwerp. [[https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/toon-calders/|Visit my page at the University of Antwerp]]

  * I have been promotor and co-promotor of 7 finished PhD students: Adriana Bechara Prado (UAntwerpen; PhD 14 December 2009), Faisal Kamiran (TU/e; PhD 11 October 2011), Calin Garboni (UAntwerpen; PhD 7 September 2012), Thanh Lam Hoang (TU/e; PhD 2 December 2013), Iuliia Efremova (TU/e; PhD 20 April 2016), Tanvir Ahmed (ULB; PhD 20 June 2016; with Torben Bach Pedersen of AAU), Petar Jovanovic (ULB; PhD 26 September 2016; with prof. Oscar Romeiro of UPC).
  * I am currently promotor of 4 ongoing PhD students: Muhammad Aamir Saleem (ULB; promotor since 2014; with Torben Bach Pedersen of AAU), Faisal Moeen ULB; (promotor since 2014; with Torben Bach Pedersen of AAU), Rohit Kumar (ULB; promotor since 2014; with prof. Alberto Abello of UPC), and Stephen Pauwels (UAntwerpen; promotor since 2016)