CV

Want to collaborate on a research project? Feel free to contact me by mail!
firstname[dot]lastname[at]tu-darmstadt[dot]de

Education

• ELLIS PhD Student in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt and KU Leuven, 2023-2027
  • Supervisors : Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt), Marie-Francine Moens (KU Leuven), and Tinne Tuytelaars (KU Leuven)
  • Research on real-world fact-checking, chart understanding, and computational social science
• M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, KU Leuven, 2022-2023
  • 89.92% Summa Cum Laude with the Congratulations of the Board of Examiners (best grades of the promotion)
  • Major in Speech and Language Technologies
  • Courses : Linguistics & AI, Speech Science, Information Retrieval, Speech Recognition, Language Engineering, Reinforcement Learning
  • Thesis : SEER: A Knapsack approach to exemplar selection for In-Context HybridQA, accepted as a long paper at EMNLP main 2023
• Exchange Semester - Computer Science & Enginering, Politecnico di Milano, Fall 2021
  • 94.67%
  • Courses : Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Data and Information Quality
• M.Sc. in Business and Information Systems Engineering, KU Leuven, 2020-2022
  • 85.84% Summa Cum Laude
  • Major in Data Science
  • Courses : Machine Learning, NLP, Time Series, Operations Research, Software Architecture
  • Research assistant at the LIRIS group under the supervision of Bart Baesens and Wouter Verbeke
  • Thesis : Predicting the Demographics of Twitter Users with Programmatic Weak Supervision, accepted as a journal paper in TOP
• B.Sc. in Business Engineering, UCLouvain, 2017-2020
  • 85.6% Magna Cum Laude
  • Interdisciplinary B.Sc. at the intersection of economics and engineering
  • Courses : Calculus, Algebra, Statistics, Programming, Algorithmic, Econometrics, Economics, Physics

Industry experience

• Summer 2021 : Research Intern at Telenet Group, Mechelen, Belgium
  • Duties: Implementing a counterfactual explanation model for telco churn prediction
  • Supervisor: Professor Bart Baesens (academic), Anke Cassauwers (industry)

Awards

• LIRIS award for the best master thesis in Business and Information Systems Engineering, June 2022

Students

• Yusuf Heylen : master thesis student (Feb 2025 - ongoing)
• Jan Zimny : master thesis student (May 2024 - May 2025)
• Gabriel Thiem : student assistant (Feb 2024 - Jan 2025), now at Deutsche Bundesbank
• Niklas Traser : student assistant (Jun 2024 - Jul 2024)

Service

• Volunteer at EMNLP 2023 in Singapore
• Reviewer for NAACL 2025, ACL 2025, EMNLP 2025, Nature Communications

Publications

• Jonathan Tonglet, Gabriel Thiem, and Iryna Gurevych. 2025. COVE: COntext and VEracity prediction for out-of-context images. In Proceedins of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 2029-2049, Albuquerque. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.102/
• Jonathan Tonglet, Marie-Francine Moens, and Iryna Gurevych. 2024. ``Image, Tell me your story!’’ Predicting the original meta-context of visual misinformation. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 7845–7864, Miami. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.448/
• Manon Reusens, Alexander Stevens, Jonathan Tonglet, Johanness De Smedt, Wouter Verbeke, Seppe vanden Broucke, and Bart Baesens. 2024. Evaluating text classification: A benchmark study. Expert systems with applications, 124302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2024.124302
• Jonathan Tonglet, Astrid Jehoul, Manon Reusens, Michael Reusens, and Bart Baesens. 2024. Predicting the demographics of Twitter users with programmatic weak supervision. TOP, 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11750-024-00666-y
• Jonathan Tonglet, Manon Reusens, Philipp Borchert, and Bart Baesens. 2023. SEER : A Knapsack approach to Exemplar Selection for In-Context HybridQA. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 13569–13583, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.837

Languages

• French (native)
• Dutch (fluent)
• English (fluent)

Miscellaneous

• Partner Relations Lead for Emergent, the student data science and AI society of KU Leuven, 2021-2022
  • In charge of our core partnership with Amazon Web Services
• Student representative at the program committee, 2019 and 2023
• Vice-President of UStart LLN, the UCLouvain chapter of the Belgian student entrepeneurship society, 2018-2020
• Member of the UCLouvain University Board of Directors, 2018-2019