The Fellow
Dr. Vasileios Mygdalis is a research associate specialised in Machine Learning. He is currenty a postdoctoral research fellow at the Marketing Research Group, University of Antwerp. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019). Since 2014 and during his PhD studies, he served as a researcher and teaching assistant in the fields of machine learning, image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, except a six-month period in 2017, where he served as a research assistant at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He has participated in 8 R&D collaborative projects funded by the European Union, executing research, integration, technical/financial management and administrative duties. Vasileios has (co-)authored more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in academic journals and international conferences, which have attracted more than 600 citations according to Google Scholar . His current research interests include the areas of Attention-Based Marketing, Trustworthy AI, Adversarial Robustness, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotic Perception.
The Supervisor
Prof. Nathalie Dens is an internationally recognised researcher in the fields of marketing communication, advertising, brand placement, having a publication record of more than 150 publications including top-tier academic journals (e.g., Sage Journal of Interactive Marketing, Elsevier Journal of Business Research, Taylor and Francis International Journal of Advertising) and international conferences (e.g., European Advertising Academy). She has been nominated/won 18 “best paper” awards, awarded as “Outstanding Reviewer” of the Taylor and Francis International Journal of Advertising, was the winner of the “Research Award” and nominee of the “Education Award” of the 2019 UAntwerp Faculty of Business & Economics. Her publication record attracted more than 3100 citations according to Google Scholar and at the time of the writing, she has an h-index of 34 and an i-10 index of 60. She has supervised more than 25 Ph.D. students. She participated in several research projects on persuasive communications, communication about co-creation, advertising in social networking sites and online reviews, and has been the principal investigator/supervisor/co-supervisor of more than 18 projects, including Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) fellowships and national/university funded projects.