Robin Vandaele

Ph.D. Researcher
IDLab, Department of Electronics and Information Systems
Ghent University

Advisors: Tijl De Bie and Yvan Saeys

Robin.Vandaele@UGent.be
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Papers

• Mining Topological Structure in Graphs through Forest Representations
  Robin Vandaele, Yvan Saeys, and Tijl De Bie
  (to appear) In The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2020.
  

• Graph Approximations to Geodesics on Metric Graphs
  Robin Vandaele, Yvan Saeys, and Tijl De Bie
  (to appear) In The International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2020.
  

• The Boundary Coefficient: a Vertex Measure for Visualizing and Finding Structure in Weighted Graphs
  Robin Vandaele, Yvan Saeys, and Tijl De Bie
  In the KDD Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG), 2019.
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• Local topological data analysis to uncover the global structure of data approaching graph-structured topologies
  Robin Vandaele, Tijl De Bie, and Yvan Saeys
  In The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECML-PKDD), 2018.
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Working Experience

• Ph.D. Researcher, IDLab, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University, 2016 - now.
• Visiting Student Researcher, Stanford School of Medicine, Department of Medicine/Division of Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, 2020, March - May.

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, E003042: Probability Calculus and Statistics, Spring 2017, 2018, 2019, Ghent University.
• Teaching Assistant, E005020: Signals and Systems, Autumn 2018, Ghent University.

Community Services

Organisation of conferences, workshops, panels

• ECML-PKDD Workshop on Applications of Topological Data Analysis (ATDA), 2019.

Reviewer for journals

• Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.

Program committee member for conferences and workshops

• NeurIPS Workshop on Topological Data Analysis and Beyond (TDA & Beyond), 2020.

• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery, 2019.

• ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), 2018.