ADEE2024 Plenary 1: AI in education

Sunday, 8th September 2024 - 15:30 to 17:00

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Timezone:

CEST (Brussels time)

Duration:

90 minutes

GA0 Auditorium

Session synopsis:

Day One at ADEE 2024 focuses on how we as academics can influence, manage and encourage ethical use of AI in the academic setting.

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be constantly in the news. AI technology is fundamentally transforming our lives, and healthcare is at the center of this revolution. People advocate that AI can be faster or better than humans, and might make the dream of truly personalised medicine a reality. But to what extent are such claims valid and substantiated? What has AI really achieved? Can AI be really better than humans? Or how can humans collaborate with AI in order to get the best of both? We need not only think about AI model performance , but first think if the task at hand can be better solved with AI. As such, Maarten de Vos will clarify the potential of AI from a developer’s point of view, and aim to point to where there is added value from the healthcare professional's perspective.

We are delighted to welcome Maarten de Vos (KU Leuven) to share with us their view points on the future we face in this new AI assisted world.

Chair:

Maarten De Vos

Research Professor

KU Leuven, Belgium

Maarten De Vos has a joint appointment as BOFZAP in the Departments of Engineering and Medicine at KU Leuven after being Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Junior Professor at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He obtained an MSc (2005) and PhD (2009) in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium. His academic work focuses on AI for healthcare monitoring and innovative biomedical monitoring for daily life applications. He is renown for the derivation of personalised biosignatures of patient health and the incorporation of smart analytics into wearable sensors.

His pioneering research in the field of mobile real-life brain-monitoring has won several innovation prizes, among which the prestigious Mobile Brain Body monitoring prize in 2017, the Children’s Prize for best childhood innovation in 2018, the Martin Black Prize for the best paper in Physiological Measurements in 2019 and in 2021 he received the IEEE EMBS Benelux award for best paper in the biomedical field.

He has been guest editor for International Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, Sensors and Physiological Measurements and is currently on the editorial board of Journal of neural engineering, IEEE journal of biomedical health informatics and Nature Digital Health.

He has a strong interest in translational research, he co-founded Circadian Therapeutics with the aim to bring innovative home-monitoring solutions to people suffering from sleep and circadian disorders and is programme director of Benefit, a medical innovation programme.