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Ward Gauderis

Hello! I’m a PhD researcher at the Computational Creativity Lab within the Artificial Intelligence Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Geraint Wiggins.

I study compositionality in AI — how explicit structure and emergent behaviour interact in intelligent systems. My work bridges symbolic and sub-symbolic AI, with a focus on models that are inherently interpretable by design and can reason and create in human-like ways.

How can the compositional design of a model’s structure improve its compositional behaviour?

My PhD project, Q-CHARM, explores this question by distinguishing between the architecture of a model (its compositional design) and the structure that emerges during learning (its compositional behaviour). The goal is to uncover how architectural inductive biases can support interpretability, generalisation, and creative reasoning. Learn more about my work here!

Thomas Dooms

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