Sofie Van Hoecke

About Me

I graduated from the Engineering Department from the Ghent University in 2003. Following up on my studies in computer science, I achieved a PhD in computer science engineering at the Department of Information Technology at the same university. After being a postdoctoral research engineer at the Department of Information Technology, I started as lecturer ICT and ICT research coordinator at the University College West-Flanders. Currently, I am associate professor semantic intelligence at IDLab, Ghent University-imec. My research focuses on combining machine learning and semantic technologies for predictive maintenance and predictive healthcare.
In my free time, I am a coach at CoderDojo Tielt where we learn kids working with Scratch, Makey Makey, Blender, Arduino and more.

Education and employment

2017 - present Associate professor at Ghent University

2013 - 2017 Assistant professor at Ghent University

Awards and Promotions

Data-driven performance monitoring, fault detection and dynamic dashboards for offshore wind farms - Olivier Janssens - Promotion 2017 - Promotors: Sofie Van Hoecke, Mia Loccufier
Best Paper Award, Sofie Van Hoecke at SGames 2015 for "Enabling Control of 3D Visuals, Scenarios and Non-Linear Gameplay in Serious Game Development through Data-Driven Authoring" by Sofie Van Hoecke, Koen Samyn, Gaétan Deglorie, Olivier Janssens, Peter Lambert, Rik Van de Walle.
Multimodal analysis for object classification and event detection - Viktor Slavkovikj - Promotion 2016 - Promotors: Steven Verstockt, Sofie Van Hoecke

2009 - 2013 Lecturer ICT and research coordinator at University College West-Flanders

Awards and Promotions

Multi-modal video analysis for early fire detection - Steven Verstockt - Promotion 2011 - Promotors: Rik Van de Walle, Bart Merci, Sofie Van Hoecke

2003 - 2009 PhD in Computer Science Engineering

Awards and References

S. Van Hoecke , J. Decruyenaere, C. Danneels, K. Taveirne, K. Colpaert, E. Hoste, B. Dhoedt, F. De Turck, Service-oriented subscription management of medical decision data in the Intensive Care Unit, Methods of Information in Medicine, 2008, Volume 47, 4: 364 - 380. Selected as best paper for the 2009 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics.
PhD Dissertation "Efficient Service Management in Healthcare"

1997 - 2003 Master of Science, Computer Science Engineering

Teaching @ UGent

Ontwerp van cloud- en mobiele toepassingen

Principes, technieken en best-practices voor het ontwerpen en implementeren van cloud en mobiele applicaties, alsook hands-on ervaring met dergelijke applicaties.

Computernetwerken

Functionele opbouw en werking van een computernetwerk volgens het OSI-model. De nadruk wordt hierbij gelegd op Internet technologie, ook beveiliging van netwerken komt aan bod.

Sociale media en datamining

Principes, best-practices en hands-on ervaring met clustering-, classificatie- en regressiemethoden toegepast op sociale media data sets.

Webtechnologie

Basiskennis over webtechnologie zowel aan de client-zijde, de server-zijde, als het ontwerpen en implementeren van queries naar de achterliggende databank vormen de ruggegraat van deze cursus.

Publications

Hobbies

Wheel throwing
Painting
Sewing