Arne Van Den Kerchove

Publications

• Arne Van Den Kerchove, Hakim Si-Mohammed, Marc M. Van Hulle, François Cabestaing. Correcting for ERP latency jitter improves gaze-independent BCI decoding. Journal of Neural Engineering, 2024.
• Arno Libert, Arne Van Den Kerchove, Benjamin Wittevrongel, Marc M. Van Hulle. Analytic beamformer transformation for transfer learning in motion-onset visual evoked potential decoding. Journal of Neural Engineering, 2022.
• Arne Van Den Kerchove, Arno Libert, Benjamin Wittevrongel, Marc M. Van Hulle. Classification of Event-Related Potentials with Regularized Spatiotemporal LCMV Beamforming. Applied Sciences, 2022.
• Arne Van Den Kerchove. Linguistic transcription of EEG responses to sequences of visual stimuli. KU Leuven (Master's Thesis), 2020.

Presentations

CORTICO 2024 Poster presentation on gaze-independent visual ERP-based BCIs for patients with eye motor disabilities.

Workshop: Online BCI development with timeflux Interactive workshop for NeuroTech Leuven about implementing working, online EEG BCIs with timeflux as a data streaming framework.

BCI Society Meeting 2023 Poster presentation on classifier-based latency estimation for covert attention ERP decoding.

Workshop: SSVEP BCI signal processing Interactive workshop for NeuroTech Leuven about signal processing for Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential-based BCI's.

Leuven.AI Meeting 2022 Poster presentation on linear discriminant analysis with Kronecker-product covariance regularization for ERP decoding.

CORTICO 2021 Oral presentation at CORTICO Young Researchers Day about a multi-component approach to spatiotemporal beamforming decoding of event-related potentials.

KU Leuven Science Day 2021 Dutch online demo of event-related potenial decoding with spatiotemporal beamforming for the general public. ► Poster    ► Demo

Interests

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Education

	Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences KU Leuven, ongoing
	Ph.D. in Control Science and Signal Processing University of Lille, ongoing KU Leuven & University of Lille Global Ph.D. Partnerships 2020 Grant Thesis: EEG-based Visual Brain-Computer Interface for Gaze-free Communication

M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences: Computer Science, Cum laude KU Leuven, 2020 Option Artificial Intelligence. Thesis: Transcription of multiple ERP components from EEG recordings using spatio-temporal beamforming

B.Sc. in Informatics KU Leuven, 2017 Minor in natural sciences. Thesis: Drone simulator and stereoscopic object detection autopilot

Professional experience

Teaching Assistant Fundamentals of Computer Science KU Leuven, 2020 Teaching programming and algorithmic reasoning to first year engineering students.

Python Developer Mindspeller, 2019 Python flask developer in a spin-off of the KU Leuven Computational Neuroscience lab that provides marketing services based on neuroscientifically validated association studies.

Database Technician Pharmacists Forum of Brabant, 2015 Database refactoring and migration.

Freelance Full-stack Web Developer Self employed, 2014-2020 I build and design websites for small start-ups and organisations with Drupal CMS or Django, combined with hosting on own server infrastructure.

Front-end Web Developer GBITS Web Development, 2014 HTML/CSS template editing for a small web development company.

Volunteering Experience

NeuroTech Leuven, Project Supervisor Supervising extracurricular BCI/neurotech student projects.

Red Cross, Ambulance EMT

Red Cross Youth, Local Deputy President and First Aid Instructor Youth leader in an openly accessible youth movement and first aid instructor for children of age 6 to 16.

KU Leuven, PAL Tutor Principles of Computer Programming Organizing and teaching Peer Assisted Learning sessions in Python programming to first year Informatics students.

Scientica Leuven vzw, Board Secretary Day-to-day management of an overarching student organization at the Faculty of Science of KU Leuven. Responsible for internal quality assurance and documentation.

Wina Leuven vzw, Board Member Day-to-day management of the student organisation for Physics, Mathematics and Informatics at KU Leuven. Organizing events and parties.

Scientica Leuven vzw & Wina Leuven vzw, Webmaster Team leader of the technical support teams and of multiple student organizations and sysadmin of a small scale distributed Linux server infrastructure. Developing and maintaining the websites and online course service platform.

Students for Climate Leuven Organizing and mobilizing for a greener future.