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Mihai Bâce is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven, Faculty of Engineering Technology. He leads the Computational Interaction for Intelligent Systems (CIIS) research group, which is part of the Human-Computer Interaction unit.

He is an affiliated member of Leuven.AI, the eMedia research laboratory , and a taskforce member of the newly-founded Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute (LILI).

Mihai’s background is in computer science, with a PhD from ETH Zurich (Switzerland, defended on 25.09.2020), a master’s degree from EPFL (Switzerland), and a bachelor’s from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania). He is an AI researcher working at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction.

Alexandre Personnic is an aspiring artificial intelligence researcher based in Leuven, Belgium. He is currently pursuing a PhD at KU Leuven with a focus on gaze estimation and visual attention modeling. In 2024, he completed a joint Master of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, with a focus on AI, from INSA and ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, France. Through his academic journey, Alexandre has developed a solid foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and data science, along with strong skills in statistics, optimization, and high-performance scientific computing. Alexandre previously worked at Capgemini Engineering on multiple projects, including real-time Speech-to-Text systems, quantum machine learning, and sustainable AI initiatives. For his master’s thesis, he focused on the development of Python libraries to measure and reduce the energy consumption of AI models and collected relevant data through workflows on AWS.

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Yijun Wang is currently a PhD student at the e-Media Lab of KU Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. Maria Torres Vega and Prof. Mihai Bâce. His primary research interests lie at extended reality, including the intersection of gaze estimation and cybersickness detection and mitigation. In 2024, he obtained his Master’s degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, where his research focused on head pose estimation and 3D reconstruction based on structured light systems. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Measurement Control Technology and Instruments from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2021.

Diwas is a PhD student in the eMedia Lab at KU Leuven, working under the supervision of Professor Bart Vanrumste, Professor Benjamin Filtjens (TU Delft), and Professor Mihai Bâce. His doctoral research centers on the multimodal integration of body-worn sensors and egocentric vision for applications in action recognition, intent prediction, and fatigue estimation. Diwas obtained his master’s degree in Computer Science from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand in 2023. Prior to joining the eMedia Lab, he worked at the AI Center in AIT for 14 months, focusing on several deep learning projects, notably including one on activity monitoring and fall detection for elderly individuals and wheelchair users. He joined KU Leuven as a PhD researcher in October 2024.