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Bart De Moor ranked 136th among leading computer scientists worldwide (nr 1 for Belgium) by Research.com (The ranking contains h-index, publications and citations values collected on June 25th 2021).
Alamire Foundation, presided by Bart De Moor awarded twice in April 2021
- With a Society Award 2021 of KU Leuven Humanities and Social Sciences Group
- Selected as one of eight creative ambassadors of the City of Leuven
Honoured as Commander in the Order of Leopold I by King Filip
The order of Leopold I is the oldest and highest order of Belgium and rewards meritorius services to the Kingdom of Belgium based on the carerr path of the recipient.
Winner of the five annual FWO Excellence Prize 2010 Dr. De Leeuw – Damry – Bourlart out of the hands of King Albert II
The paper co-authored with Bart Vanluyten en Bart De Moor, and presented by Bart Vanluyten, received a paper prize for outstanding technical quality, originality, importance, and presentation at an interactive session at the 45th IEEE conference on Decision and Control.
paper : Bart Vanluyten, Jan C. Willems, Bart De Moor “Matrix factorization and stochastic state represenations” Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, Dec. 2006, pg. 4188-4193
Promotor Eredoctoraat: Prof. Dr. Lennart Ljung, Linköping University, Sweden, aan de KU Leuven, October 2004 (programma en foto’s)
Fellow of the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers) voor ‘contributions to algebraic and numerical methods in systems and control’ sinds januari 2004
IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (samen met Johan Suykens, Joos Vandewalle), uitgereikt op de 25ste IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, June 2000, Istanbul, Turkye ; IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999), voor de paper : NLq theory: checking and imposing stability of recurrent neural networks for nonlinear modelling, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (special issue on neural networks for signal processing), Vol.45, No.11, pp. 2682-2691, Nov. 1997
Tri-annual best paper award of Automatica (1996), a journal of the International Federation of Automatic Control (samen with Peter Van Overschee) voor de paper: Subspace algorithms for the identification of combined deterministic-stochastic systems , Automatica 30 (1), pp.75-94, January 1994; Het toekenningscitaat leest: Met diep inzicht, ontwikkelt dit document een zeer nuttige en efficiënte methode voor multivariable systeemidentificatie. De presentatie behandelt numerieke, statistische en implementatiekwesties, die een directe invloed op beste praktijken in identificatietoepassingen gehad hebben.
Tweejaarlijkse Siemens prijs (1994), samen met Peter Van Overschee, voor de paper : Graphical User Interface Software for System Identification, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium
Laureaat van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (1992), eerste prijs voor de paper : “Numerical Algorithms for State Space Subspace System Identification”, gepubliceerd in Academia Analecta, Klasse der Wetenschappen, Koninklijke Akademie voor Wetenschappen, Jaargang 55, nr. 5, 1993
Promotor van het ere-doctoraat voor Prof. Dr. Gene Golub, Stanford University, at the KU Leuven, December 1992
Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award (1990) of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, samen met Lieven Vandenberghe en Joos Vandewalle voor de paper : The Generalized Linear Complementarity Problem Applied to the Complete Analysis of Resistive Piecewise Linear Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, November 1989, Volume 36, Number 11, pp.1382-1391
De Leslie Fox Prijs (1989), eerste prijs, (17 internationale kandidaten, 7 finalists) voor de paper : The restricted singular value decomposition: Properties and applications. Cambridge University, England, September 5, 1989; Published as: De Moor B., Golub G.H. The restricted singular value decomposition: properties and applications. Siam Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol.12, no.3, July 1991, pp.401-425.
Leybold-Heraeus Prize (1986) voor het rapport over de positie van België in vergelijking met Japan en de USA, betreffende het wetenschappelijk onderzoek en de technologische innovatie.
Awards of former PhD Students
Peter Van Loo: Winner of the 1st VIB Alumni Award
Nico Verbeeck: Biovis Data contest Winner : Sakai R., Verbeeck N., Simm J., Aerts J., BioVis 4th Symposium on Biological data Visualisation, Boston, MA, USA, Jul. 2014.
Nico Verbeeck: Best Poster Award for “Verbeeck N., Van de Plas R., Yang J., Caprioli R.M., Waelkens E., De Moor B. “Guided exploration of mass spectrometry imaging data through integration with anatomical information”, Benelux Bioinformatics Conference 2013, Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 2013
Nico Verbeeck: Best Poster Award for Verbeeck N., Van de Plas R., El Aalamat Y., De Moor B., Waelkens E. “Inter-tissue comparison of mass spectral imaging data using group independent component analysis (GICA), NVMS/BSMS Rolduc Conference, The Netherlands, Kerkrade, March 2012.
Anneleen Daemen: Postdoctoral BAEF fellowship (2010-2011) Belgian American Educational Foundation
Shi Yu : Outstanding Self-Financed Students Studying Abroad. China Scholarship Council, Ministry of Education, China
Olivier Gevaert : BAEF Fellowship : Henri Benedictus Fellow of the King Boudauin Foundation and the Belgian American Educational Foundation
Olivier Gevaert : Fulbright fellowhip : Honorary Fulbright Scholar of the Commission for Educational Exchange between the Unites States of America, Belgium and Luxembourg
Nico Verbeeck : Best Poster Award for : Verbeeck N., Van de Plas R., De Moor B., Waelkens E. “Compression of mass spectral imaging data using discrete wavelet analysis with incorporated spatial information”, Flanders Proteomics KVCB-P, Belgium, Antwerp, Flanders Proteomics, 16 Dec. 2010.
Maarten Breckpot :
- EOS award 2009 and the agoria award 2009 for his masters thesis “Overstromingsbeheersing van de Demer met Model Predictieve Controle”
- Nominated for the Vlaamse Scriptieprijs 2009. He belonged to the short list of 5 students who graduated in 2009
Hong Sun : Best student paper award IJCBS 2009.
Best student paper award at the 2009 International Joint Conferences on Bioinformatics, System Biology and Intelligent Computing, IJCBS 2009 (Shanghai, China, August 2009) for the paper “Layout and Post-Processing of Transcriptional Modules” (Sun H., Lemmens K., Van den Bulcke T., Engelen K., De Moor B., Marchal K.)
Maarten Breckpot : BESIX Award
for the best Master thesis at the promotion/graduation session of Engineering 2009.
Click here to download the thesis entitled “Overstromingsbeheersing van de Demer met Model Predictieve Controle” (Praktische uitwerking met de INCA software van IPCOS)
Anneleen Daemen :
- PSB 2009 reisbeurs voor deelname aan “14th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2009) in Big Island, Hawaii, USA (bedrag $ 1250USD)
- ISMB 2009 travel fellowship to attend the 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2009)& the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Stockholm, Sweden for the amount of 450 euro.
Carlos Alzate : IJCNN 2009 Best Paper Award (Atlanta US, June 2009) for his paper “A regularized formulation for spectral clustering with pairwise constraints”
Anneleen Daemen :
- KES 2008 Best Student Paper Award 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Zagreb, Croatia, 3-5 September 2008, voor de paper “Classification of Sporadic and BRCA1 Ovarian Cancer Based on a Genome -wide Study of Copy Number Variations”.
- PSB 2008 reisbeurs voor deelname aan 13th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2008) in Big Island, Hawaii, USA (bedrag $1000USD).
Ivan Markovsky : Alston S Householder Award 2008 :Best Dissertation in Numerical Linear Algebra. Awarded at the Householder XVII Symposium, held in Zeuthen, Germany, June 1-6, 2008. Selection Commitee: James Demmel (university of California), Howard Elman (University of Maryland), Volker Mehrmann (TU Berlin), Sabine Van Huffel (K.U. Leuven), Charles Van Loan (Cornell University) Committee Chair
Fabian Ojeda en Johan Suykens : Outstanding Poster Award at ISMB/ECCB 2007 Conference. Viena, Austria. “A large scale clustering algorithm with out of sample extension : application to gene expression data” by F. Ojeda, C. Alzate, J. Suykens, B. De Moor.
Anneleen Daemen : Finalist for the KVIV Engineering Master Thesis Award 2007
Bart Vanluyten : Interactive paper prize. Rewarded to the paper “Matrix Factorization and Stochastic State Representations” by Bart Vanluyten, Jan C. Willems and Bart L.R. De Moor for outstanding technical quality, originality, importance and presentation at an interactive session at the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control CDC2006 )
Gert Thijs : Tech-Art 2005 Award of the VIK for the Silicos’ Virtual Screening Factory
Frank Verstraete : ASL Prijs voor Exacte Wetenschappen. De Academische Stichting Leuven (ASL) bekroont een doctoraatsproefschrift dat zich situeert in het domein van de exacte wetenschappen en dat aan de K.U.Leuven behaald werd. Het bekroonde werk moet uitmunten door de originaliteit van het onderwerp, de wetenschappelijke uitwerking en/of de innoverende conclusies.
Tom Van Herpe : Diabetes Technology Peterson Student Research Bronze Price during the 5th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting
Bert Pluymers : Student Best Paper Award of the American Control Conference 2005
Katrien De Cock : outstanding reviewer for Automatica 2004-2005
Marcelo Espinoza : Automatica Outstanding Reviewer(2005)
- Ivan Markovsky : Mathematica Award by Wolfram Research at the International Conference on Computation Statistics (COMPSTAT 2004),
Prague, for the poster “Consistent estimation of an ellipsoid with known center”, by I. Markovsky, A. Kukush and S. Van Huffel
Ivan Goethals : Kanunnick J. Desmet Award for most distinguished physics student in the graduating year 2000