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Pieter Leyman is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design at Ghent University, where he focuses on Sustainable Production Processes. He obtained his PhD in Applied Economic Sciences in 2016 and has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp, along with a top research stay at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Leyman is also an affiliate member of Flanders Make, a strategic research center dedicated to the Flemish manufacturing industry. His main research interests include the development of metaheuristic algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, as well as the integration of machine learning techniques to enhance performance. He applies these techniques in the context of energy-aware production scheduling, contributing to the advancement of a sustainable society.
Ghent University • Ghent, Belgium
Research in Sustainable Production Processes, focusing on optimization and integration of machine learning.