Willem Waegeman

**Current position** I am a post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders. I am a member of the research unit **[[http://www.kermit.ugent.be/|Knowledge-based Systems (KERMIT)]]** of the Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University. In the past, I have been a member of the **[[http://www.systems.ugent.be/|SYSTemS-group]]** of the Department of Electrical Energy, Systems and Automation, also at Ghent University. **Research interests** My main interests are **machine learning** and **data mining**, including theoretical research and various **applications in the life sciences**. In previous work, I have been using ideas from other domains as well, such as decision theory, statistics, fuzzy set theory and graph theory. Many of my papers can be situated in the field of **preference learning**. **Review work** I have been a reviewer for the following journals: Machine Learning Journal, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Neural Netwo