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Education

Ph.D in Business Economics, KU Leuven, 2025 (expected)
M.S. in Business Information Systems Engineering, KU Leuven, 2021
B.S. in Business Information Systems Engineering, KU Leuven, 2019

Work experience

2019 - 2021: Jobstudent financial assistant
- imec
- Duties includes: Updating internal documentation in SAP, Excel, and HTML
- Supervisor: Financial controllers
2017 - 2019: Tutor
- REBUS
- Duties included: Tutoring first-year university students in economics, statistics and finance.

Skills

Programming tools and frameworks
- Languages: Python, R, SQL
- Data processing: Pandas, Numpy, Spark, Matplotlib, ArcGIS, Google Earth Engine
- Analytics: Scikit-learn, Torch, TensorFlow
- Version control: Git
Machine learning & statistics
- Theorethical fundamentals
- Algorithmic development
- Experimental design
- Robust evaluation and interpretation
- Data processing pipelines
Project management
Academic Writing

Publications

Graph Neural Networks for House Price Prediction: Do or Don’t?, Geerts, M., vanden Broucke, S., De Weerdt, J., International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2024.

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A Spatial Loss Function for Gradient Boosted Trees, Geerts, M., vanden Broucke, S., De Weerdt, J., International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL), IJCAI, 2024.

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GeoRF: a geospatial random forest, Geerts, M., vanden Broucke, S., De Weerdt, J., Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2024.

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An Evolutionary Geospatial Regression Tree, Geerts, M., vanden Broucke, S., De Weerdt, J., International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL), IJCAI, 2023.

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A Survey of Methods and Input Data Types for House Price Prediction, Geerts, M., vanden Broucke, S., De Weerdt, J., ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023.

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Predicting the State of a House Using Google Street View: An Analysis of Deep Binary Classification Models for the Assessment of the Quality of Flemish Houses, Geerts, M., Shaikh, K., vanden Broucke, S., De Weerdt, J., International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, 2022.

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