Honorary degree in Science 2025
Prof. Jure Leskovec

The Faculty of Science of the University of Antwerp would like to welcome you to the masterclass and official conferral of the honorary degree to Prof. Jure Leskovec.
Nominator: Prof. Bart Goethals
Masterclass: Graphs, Data and AI
- 9.30 a.m. : Welcome
- 9.50 a.m. : Word of welcome by Prof. Bart Goethals, nominator
- 10.00 a.m.: Masterclass ‘Graphs, Data and AI’ by Prof. Jure Leskovec
- 11.00 a.m.: Reception
Abstract
Heterogeneous knowledge graphs are emerging as an abstraction to represent complex data, such as social networks, knowledge graphs, molecular graphs, biomedical networks, as well as for modeling 3D objects, manifolds, and source code. AI, especially deep representation learning, on graphs is an emerging field with a wide array of applications from protein folding and fraud detection, to drug discovery and recommender systems. In this talk I will discuss recent methodological advancements that automatically learn to encode graph structure into low-dimensional embeddings. I will also discuss industrial applications, software frameworks, benchmarks, and challenges with scaling-up graph learning systems.
Practical information
- Date: Thursday 20 March 2025 at 9.30 a.m.
- Event location:
Auditorium Stadsfeestzaal Antwerp
Meir 78
2000 Antwerp - The event will be held in English.