Jef Vandemeulebroucke is a professor at the faculty of engineering. He received the master's degree in electronic engineering from the University of Ghent, Belgium. In Granada, Spain, he specialized in artificial intelligence for one year, after which he performed postgraduate training in numerical optimization techniques at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil. His doctoral research focused on lung motion estimation and modeling for image-guided radiation therapy, conducted in collaboration with the Creatis Laboratory, University of Lyon 1, France, and the Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
He is currently an Associate Professor of medical image analysis with the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium. He is also an Affiliated Researcher with Imec, an international research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, and FARI, the Brussels Institute on AI for the Common Good. His current research interests include medical image analysis for applications in computer-aided diagnosis and image-guided interventions, with a focus on thoracic, whole-body, and dynamic imaging for oncology and musculoskeletal pathologies.