About

Benjamin Schrauwen is hooked on all aspects of machine learning and robotics, and loves all flying objects. He is the group leader of the Reservoir Lab at Ghent University which specializes in temporal signal processing using Reservoir Computing. The applications that are researched range from speech recognition, epileptic seizure detection to robotics. He also has extensive expertise in digital FPGA-based hardware design.

Benjamin is also co-founder of Mollom, a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop website spam.

The few days it doesn't rain in Belgium, he likes flying a paraglider or climbing rocks, on rainy days he runs long distances.

Schrauwen holds a PhD in computer engineering from Ghent University, a Computer Engineering degree (MsC) from Ghent University and a Licentiate Computer Science (MsC) from the University of Antwerp.