Andreas Verleysen
Senior Engineer Smart Robotics at IDLab (UGent - UAntwerpen - imec)
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolAndreas Verleysen is a senior smart robotics engineer and roboticist with 11 years of experience bridging machine learning research and real-world automation at Ghent University’s AIRO‑IDLab. He holds a PhD in Computer Science focused on learning-based grasping and cloth manipulation, and now leads efforts to safely bring pick-and-place robots out of cages to collaborate with human order pickers. Combining a background in business engineering and optimization with hands-on data science experience, he excels at turning advanced algorithms into deployable robotic systems. Based in Ghent, he’s equally comfortable prototyping novel perception and control methods as integrating them into industrial workflows, with a particular knack for solving messy, organic-object grasping problems that defy classical approaches.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, business engineering, Distinction, Bachelor's Degree, business engineering, Distinction at Universiteit GentDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Ghent UniversityMaster’s Degree, Business engineer: Operations management, Great Distinction, Master’s Degree, Business engineer: Operations management, Great Distinction at University of Ghent
Github Skills (57)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adverley/folding-demonstrations
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year 9 months
adverley/orb-catching-game
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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