Antwerp Center on Responsible AI (ACRAI) Research Day
The Antwerp Center on Responsible AI (ACRAI) invites researchers, academics, industry experts, policymakers, and students to the ACRAI Research Day - a platform for exploring advancements in Responsible AI. This event is designed for professionals and scholars across AI, data science, ethics, law, and related fields who wish to deepen their expertise, present findings, and collaborate on solutions to the ethical and societal challenges posed by AI.
Date and Location
The ACRAI Research Day will be held on Thursday, 19th March 2026, at the Campus Drie Eiken, Building O Aula O2.
Research Day Schedule
Preliminary schedule:
Time | Content |
|---|---|
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Registration + Coffee |
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Welcome: Prof. David Martens & Prof. Toon Calders |
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Presentations (1) |
11:30 AM -12:00 PM | Flash Talks Poster session |
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM | Lunch + Poster Session |
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Presentations (2) |
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Research Speeddating + Coffee |
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM | Presentations (3) |
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Reception |
Practical Information
Oral Presentations
Presentations (1) | Presentations (2) | Presentations (3) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Manon Reusens (UAntwerpen) | Would a Large Language Model Pay Extra for a View? Inferring Willingness to Pay from Subjective Choice | Tom Vandeuren (UAntwerpen) | TBD | Stig Hellemans (UAntwerpen) | Building a production-ready de-identification system for sensitive clinical texts |
Arian Sabaghi Khameneh (UAntwerpen) | Measuring Explanation Uncertainty in Autonomous Navigation Systems | Kimberly Van Sande | TBD | Justin Young (UAntwerpen) | AI and the Future of Professional Writing |
Benjamin González (UAntwerpen) | Anticompetitive Effects of Algorithmic Targeting | Oberon De Deurwaerder (UAntwerpen) | SLM for generating synthetic training data in a reinforced supervised learning setup | Romi Vandoren (UAntwerpen) | The impact of information bleed and negative data bias on AI model performance for the TCR-epitope prediction problem |
Arne Vanhoywegen (VUB) | GPT-5.1 Performing Human-Aligned Grading in Hand-Written Calculus Tests | Jelle Vekeman (UAntwerpen) | Rethinking the balance between accuracy and computational cost in computational chemistry: the case of machine learning potentials | Fawaz Sammani (VUB) | TBD |
Victor De Marez | Assessing factual sycophancy in large language models | Mateusz Cedro (UAntwerpen) | Cash or comfort? How LLM's value our everyday inconveniences | ||
Poster Presentations
Presenter | Title |
|---|---|
Marco Favier (UAntwerpen) | Cherry On The Cake: Fairness is NOT an optimization problem |
Nick Wils (UAntwerpen) | Fairness in epdemiological hypergraphs |
Eleni Gkovedarou (UAntwerpen) | Gender-Fair Rewriter for English-to-Greek Translations |
Farnaz Faramarzi Lighvan (VUB) | Adaptive Weighted LSSVM for Multi-View Classification |
Francesca Carlon (VUB) | Thinking Like a Scientist? A Structural Study of LLM-Generated Research Methods. |
TBD (UAntwerpen) | The ultimate design machine (interactive) |
TBD (UAntwerpen) | Rethinking right tool at the right time for CAD learning |
Malek Ferjani (UAntwerpen) | One definition, big consequences: what counts as “transparency” in EU AI governance? |
Yifan He (UAntwerpen) | An Agentic Approach to Generating XAI-Narratives |
Ine Gevers (UAntwerpen) | In Benchmarks We Trust … Or Not? |
Berre Deltomme (UAntwerpen) | New Approaches to Behavioral Measurement using Large Language Models: Opportunities and Risks for Responsible AI in Survey-Based Research |
Charlotte Adams (UAntwerpen) | Reference bias in clinical proteomics: Do current proteome references fail underrepresented groups? |
Siem Buseyne (UAntwerpen) | How system autonomy shapes teachers’ acceptance of AI‑supported educational technology: Evidence from a quantitative vignette study. |