Group of Koen Van Hoof

Prof. Dr. Koen Vanhoof is project leader of the Business informatics research group at Hasselt University. His major research interests are in the areas of data mining, statistics, knowledge engineering and modeling, computational intelligence methods, decision support systems, process modeling, process mining and soft computing . The application domains are information management, marketing and finance, mobility and traffic safety, logistics. He has authored and/or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, about 8 book chapters and 90 conference papers. Currently he is responsible for the courses Business Intelligence, Business process modeling, Knowledge discovery management.. Prof. Dr. Koen Vanhoof has been guest-lecturer at different universities all over the world. Until now he has promoted more than 20 PH. D. students.

Alejandro Morales Hernández's doctoral research is entitled “Optimization of machine learning models: applications in forecasting”. Within this topic, the focus is developing a data-efficient multi-objective Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) method for machine learning algorithms, which enables the analyst to automatically find the Pareto-optimal solution configurations, considering the uncertainty in the corresponding performance metrics.