In 1999, I graduated from the 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 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 Information Systems group at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

From December 2012 on, I am “Chargé de Cours” (Associate Professor) at the Université Libre De Bruxelles in the CoDE research group.

Since February 2016 I am only partly employed at ULB. Sine then my main affiliation is with the University of Antwerp. 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)