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CV of Jef Jonkers

General Information

Full Name Jef Jonkers
Languages English, Dutch, French

Education

  • 2023-2027
    PhD, Computer Science
    Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • Conformal Prediction
    • Probabilistic Forecasting
    • Causal Inference
  • 2022-2023
    MSc, Statistical Data Analysis
    Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • Magna Cum Laude
    • Thesis - Evaluating Meta-Learners, Probability Calibration and Gradient Boosting Trees for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation with Label Imbalance.
  • 2020-2022
    MSc, Computer Science Engineering
    Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • Magna Cum Laude
    • Thesis - Probabilistic Forecasting Day-ahead Wind Power Generation at Regional Scales using Machine Learning.

Experience

  • 2023 - present
    PhD Researcher
    Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • Conducting research on conformal prediction, probabilistic forecasting, and causal inference.
    • Collaborating with clinical and hospitals in applying theoretical research to real-world problems.
  • 2025 (Sep-Dec)
    Visiting Researcher
    ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Conducting research on isotonic distributional regression and conformal predictive systems.
  • 2023 (Feb-Jul)
    Student Researcher
    Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
    • Performing research on anatomical landmark localization and measurements in medical images using deep learning.

Grants and Funding

  • 2025
    • Travel Grant from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) for visiting ETH Zurich
  • 2024
    • PhD Fellowship from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Professional and Academic Service

  • 2026
    • Reviewer for the Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026)
    • Reviewer for Annals of Applied Statistics
    • Reviewer for Frontiers in Medicine
  • 2025
    • Reviewer for the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
    • Reviewer for the Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2026)
    • Reviewer for Pattern Recognition (PR)
    • Reviewer for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences)
    • Programme Committee member for the Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA 2025)
  • 2024
    • Reviewer for the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Alexey Chervonenkis Award for the Best Student Paper (COPA 2024)

Talks and Presentations

  • 2026
    • Oral presentation at HINT.GENT Science Conference 2026, on "Beyond binary acute kidney injury classification" (Ghent, Belgium).
    • Oral presentation at IMS Annual Meeting 2026 on "Functional Calibration For Survival Prediction Under Right Censoring" (Salzburg, Austria).
    • Poster presentation at AISTATS 2026 Workshop "Towards Trustworthy Predictions: Theory and Applications of Calibration for Modern AI" (Tangier, Morocco).
  • 2025
    • Invited PhD talk at ETH Zurich Seminar for Statistics on "Generalized Conformal Predictive Systems uder Distributional Shifts" (Zurich, Switzerland).
  • 2024
    • Oral presentation at the Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications (COPA 2024) (Milan, Italy).

Academic Interests

  • Probabilistic Forecasting/Distributional Regression
    • Finite-sample calibration guarantees (under distributional shifts)
    • Conformal predictive systems
    • Isotonic distributional regression
    • Multivariate predictive distributions
  • Conformal Prediction
    • Conformal prediction for multivariate response variables
    • Conformal prediction in causal inference
  • Causal Inference
    • Heterogeneous (individualized) treatment effect estimation
    • Causal discovery