Vincent Ginis

Vincent Ginis received his B.Sc. degree in engineering, summa cum laude, in 2007, and the M.Sc. degree in Photonics Engineering, summa cum laude, in 2009 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). In May 2014, he received the degree of doctor in applied sciences, summa cum laude and felicitations of the exam committee.His research group explores the borderlands between physics, information theory, complex systems, and data analysis. This research is closely intertwined with the AI Lab and the Applied Physics research group. In addition, Vincent is a visiting professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is the main supervisor of seven PhD students.To date, Vincent has published his research in around 30 international publications with a high impact factor, including articles in Science, Nature Photonics, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters, and several papers highlighted as Editor's Suggestion. He has presented his work in more than 40 international conference proceedings, and he was invited or plenary speaker at ten international conferences. Vincent also serves as a reviewer for several important journals in his field and is a member of the scientific committee of several international conferences.Several courses in Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering are taught by Vincent and are consistently evaluated by the students with top marks. Vincent has received many national and international awards, including Agathon De Potter Award in Physics (2018), the Solvay Award for Ph.D. dissertations (2016), the Vocatio fellowship (2015), the FWO/BCG Best Paper Award (2014), the international SPIE Scholarship(2013), the IEEE Graduate Student fellowship (2012), the KVIV engineering award (2010), and the FWO/Barco Award (2010).Vincent regularly appears in the general media to discuss research breakthroughs and strongly advocates for open and reproducible science. In 2017, he was elected as one of the ten new members of the Young Academy of Belgium and as one of the top 50 tech pioneers in Belgium. Between 2019 and 2021, he served as co-president of the Young Academy of Belgium. Here, Vincent has broadened his academic interests to include educational innovation, open Science, research evaluation, and, more generally, the structure, interpretation, and communication of layered knowledge. He wants to contribute to greater academic awareness about the power of (algorithmic) feedback loops and Goodhart's law.