Ghent University Global Campus 101.

1. GHENT UNIVERSITY GLOBAL CAMPUS 101
Wesley De Neve
IDLab, Ghent University, Belgium
Center for Biotech Data Science, GUGC, Korea
September 28, 2018
Visit University of Twente

2. SCHEDULE
• 15h00 – 15h10: Welcome coffee
• 15h10 – 15h30: Ghent University Global Campus
• 15h30 – 15h50: Center for Biotech Data Science
• 15h50 – 16h05: Center for Environmental and Energy Research
• 16h05 – 16h30: Overview of Study Trip and Research @ University of Twente
• 16h30 – 17h30: Tour of GUGC and IGC Facilities
̶ 7F @ GUGC: Center for Environmental and Energy Research (10 minutes)
̶ 10F @ GUGC: Lab for Plant Growth Analysis (20 minutes)
̶ 21F @ IGC: View on Campus and Surroundings (30 minutes)
• 18h00 – 19h30: Dinner: Soorasang @ Triple Street (Korean Beef Hot Pot)
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3. CONTEXT
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4. PERSONAL BACKGROUND
• Academic credentials
̶ Master’s degree in computer science (2002)
 from Ghent University, Belgium
̶ Ph.D. degree in computer science engineering (2007)
 from Ghent University, Belgium
̶ post-doctoral experience (2007)
 at ICU / KAIST, Korea
• Employment
̶ IDLab, Ghent University, Belgium (since 2002)
̶ Ghent University Global Campus (GUGC), Korea (since 2014)
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5. GHENT UNIVERSITY
• A Dutch-speaking university, public & pluralistic
̶ located in Ghent, Belgium
̶ established in 1817
Ghent
Brussels
Leuven

6. GHENT UNIVERSITY
• Counts 42,000 students and 9,000 staff members
‒ about 4,000 foreign students and 800 foreign staff members
• Consists of 11 faculties, counting 117 departments
‒ campus buildings are distributed all over the city
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Congress Center
‘Het Pand’
Faculty of Engineering
and Architecture
Aula Academia

7. SONGDO
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8. SONGDO: LOCATION

9. SONGDO: LOCATION
Songdo is about 25 kilometers away from Incheon International Airport,
about 60 kilometers away from Seoul, and about 65 kilometers away from North Korea

10. SONGDO: CONSTRUCTION AND POPULATION
• $35 billion real estate project coordinated by Gale International,
POSCO E&C, and Incheon Metropolitan City
‒ started in 2001 and scheduled for completion in 2018
• Built on 600 hectares of land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea
• Located in an optimal location in Northeast Asia, within a 3½
hour flight to 1/3 of the world’s population
• Population: about 130,000 inhabitants in August 2018
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11. SONGDO: A GREEN AND WIRED CITY
• Metropolis built from scratch
‒ constructed towers that meet strict standards for green buildings
‒ central green space modeled after New York City's Central Park
‒ a robust public transit network
‒ a state-of-the-art water recycling system
‒ a state-of-the-art waste management system (pneumatic system)
‒ a state-of-the-art network infrastructure (Cisco Systems)
• Blueprint for other cities that are to be built in the future
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12. SONGDO IN PICTURES
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Central Park
Northeast Asia Trade Tower (1,001 feet) Tri-bowlConvensia
Yonsei International CampusSamsung Biologics / Bioepis

13. SONGDO IN PICTURES
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Control Center
Pneumatic
waste
management

14. GUGC
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15. GUGC: TIMELINE
• 2009: invitation from Korean authorities to join a newly built campus
that would host several international universities
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16. GUGC: TIMELINE
• 2011: memorandum of understanding & financial agreement
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17. GUGC: TIMELINE
• 2012: opening of Incheon Global Campus (IGC)
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In 2012, IGC was still known as the Songdo Global University Campus (SGUC)

18. GUGC: TIMELINE
• 2014: opening of Ghent University Global Campus (GUGC)
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Start of the first academic year with 51 full-time students

19. GUGC: TIMELINE
• 2016: opening of integrated building for teaching & research
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August 2014 August 2016

20. GUGC: TIMELINE
• 2016: opening of integrated building for teaching & research
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10F Research labs + Greenhouses
9F Research labs
8F Research labs
7F Research labs
6F Teaching labs
5F Teaching labs
4F Teaching labs
3F Teaching labs
2F Administration
1F Administration
B1 Basement (Test Halls)
Integrated building for teaching & research comes with a space of 18,000 m2

21. GUGC: TIMELINE
• 2018: first graduates
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Two students graduated in August 2018

22. MOTIVATION
• Korean authorities
‒ mitigate brain drain (financial and emotional cost) by locally offering
international educational programmes that are highly ranked (top-100)
• Ghent University
‒ well-funded internationalization project: starting grant + annual subsidy
(5 years) + investment in state-of-the-art infrastructure
‒ interaction with Korean (biotech) industry and institutes of higher learning
 Songdo aims at becoming a biotech cluster
‒ foothold in a dynamic and strategic region
‒ increase international presence and visibility
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23. INCHEON GLOBAL CAMPUS
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Incheon Global Campus
• SUNY at Stony Brook
• Fashion Institute of Technology
• George Mason University
• University of Utah
• Ghent University

24. GUGC: BIOTECH CAMPUS
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Students at work in state-of-the-art wet labs and greenhouses

25. GUGC: PROFESSIONAL BIOTECH DEGREE
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Medical
Biotech
Plant
Biotech
Biotech
Data
Science
Bachelor Master Ph.D.
Environmental
Technology
Molecular
Biotechnology
Food
Technology
Dutch-Flemish accreditation (NVAO) + Korean accreditation

26. GUGC: BIOTECH PROGRAMME
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240 ECTS
Molecular
Biotechnology (MBT)
Environmental
Technology (ET)
Food Technology
(FT)
Term 1 Term 2 Term 1 Term 2 Term 1 Term 2
BA1 Common Common Common Common Common Common
BA2 Common Common Common Common Common Common
BA3
Common Common Common Common Common Common
MBT MBT ET ET FT FT
BA4
Term @
Home
Campus
Courses
Term @
Home
Campus
Courses
Term @
Home
Campus
Courses
Bachelor’s
Project
Bachelor’s
Project
Bachelor’s
Project
https://studiegids.ugent.be/2018/EN/GC/O/

27. GUGC: TERM @ HOME CAMPUS
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4 students in AY 2017-2018 15 students in AY 2018-2019

28. GUGC: TEACHING
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Teaching
Team
Resident Faculty:
12 professors +
24 teaching assistants
Flying Faculty:
18 professors

29. GUGC: STUDENT NUMBERS
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• Student numbers in September 2018: 257 students in total
̶ 189 students in BA1 and BA2
̶ 49 students in Molecular Biotechnology (BA3 and BA4)
̶ 13 students in Food Technology (BA3 and BA4)
̶ 6 students in Environmental Technology (BA3 and BA4)
• Expected intake in March 2019: +150 students

30. GUGC: EDUCATION GROUNDED IN RESEARCH
• Five research centers
̶ Plant Bioactive Compound Research
̶ Food Chemistry and Technology
̶ Environmental and Energy Research
̶ Biomedical Research
̶ Biotech Data Science
• Combination of wet and dry lab research and education
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31. CENTER FOR BIOTECH
DATA SCIENCE
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32. A WORLD OF EXPONENTIAL CHANGE
• We are living in a world of exponential change (cf. law of Moore),
resulting in a staggering growth of data
̶ will bring a whole new wave of societal and economic change
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cleaner energy healthier society improved agriculture

33. HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
• Human brain power is not increasing at an exponential rate
̶ need for advances in the field of artificial intelligence, facilitating automatic
extraction of actionable knowledge from vast amounts of raw data
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34. BIOTECH DATA SCIENCE
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Source: Gerald A. Tuskan, DOE (JGI)
Blue: growth of biological data
Red: increase in biotech data scientists
life sciences mathematics
computer science
biotech
data science

35. CENTER FOR BIOTECH DATA SCIENCE
• Primary objective for education
̶ to train people on how to use mathematical and computational techniques for
extracting actionable knowledge from (vast) sets of biotech data
• Primary objective for research
̶ to develop novel mathematical and computational techniques for processing
(vast) sets of biotech data
• Headcount
̶ 4 professors and 7 teaching assistants
̶ hiring ongoing for two more teaching assistants
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36. EDUCATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
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prep term bachelor 1 bachelor 2 bachelor 3 bachelor 4
Informatics
Mathematics 1
Physics 1
Physics 2
Mathematics 2
Mathematics 3
Engineering
Mathematics
Physics
Bioinformatics
Probability &
Statistics
Process Modeling
& Control
Bachelor’s project
responsible for teaching 11 bachelor courses (70 ECTS)

37. USE CASES
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Nathan Muyinda & Shodhan Rao
Modeling species richness in competition
networks
with Bernard De Baets (Ghent University)
Breght Vandenberghe & Arnout Van Messem
3-D Phenotyping of Rice Plants
via Computer Vision and Machine Learning
with Stephen Depuydt (GUGC – VIB)
and Yvan Saeys (Ghent University – VIB)
Jasper Zuallaert & Wesley De Neve
Interpretable Deep Learning for Structural
and Functional Genome Annotation
with Joni Dambre (Ghent University – imec)
and Yvan Saeys (Ghent University – VIB)
Mijung Kim & Wesley De Neve
Interpretable Deep Learning for Medicine
and Healthcare
with Sungwook Seo (SMC – SKKU)

38. USE CASES
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Manvel Gasparyan, Arnout Van Messem &
Shodhan Rao
Model Reduction Methods for
Biochemical Reaction Networks
with Willem Waegeman (Ghent University)
Utku Ozbulak, Arnout Van Messem &
Wesley De Neve
Interpretable Deep Learning for
Robust Visual Content Understanding
Homin Park & Wesley De Neve
Fast and Accurate Deep Learning for
3-D Object Understanding

39. DEEP LEARNING
Google DeepMind
(+ Ghent University)
four of our graduates are now working at
Google DeepMind and one at Google Brain
Sedol Lee
Google DeepMind Challenge Match
in March 2016 @ Seoul, Korea

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… ACCAGGTAAGCGCATCCGACATCTCTCAACGAGTCGAC …
1) Search for patterns in DNA sequences by means of neural networks
2) Combine patterns found to classify a candidate splice site as a true splice
site or as a false splice site
… ACCAGGTAAGCGCATCCGACATCTCTCAACGAGTCGAC …
True splice site
INTERPRETABLE DEEP LEARNING FOR
STRUCTURAL GENOME ANNOTATION

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Mammogram image
Normal
Benign
Malignant
1) Classify an input image as either
normal (no lesion), benign, or malignant
2) Upon classification as either benign
or malignant, segment the lesion
Upon classification as
normal, no segmentation
is used
The red part of the heat
map below shows where
the lesion is located
INTERPRETABLE DEEP LEARNING FOR
MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE

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INTERPRETABLE DEEP LEARNING FOR
MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE

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what people think he’s
referring to
what he’s actually
referring to
INTERPRETABLE DEEP LEARNING FOR
ROBUST VISUAL CONTENT UNDERSTANDING

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Deep learning
methods can be
deceived with
advanced attacks to
produce wrong
outputs with high
confidence
Even though two
images look exactly
the same to the
human eye,
predictions can be
drastically different on
edited images
Correctly classified as
‘panda’ with 65%
confidence
Specifically generated
adversarial noise
Wrongly classified as
‘gibbon’ with 99%
confidence
Correctly classified as
‘infiltration’
Adversarial noise Wrongly classified as
‘healthy’
+ 0.007
+ 0.011
=
=
INTERPRETABLE DEEP LEARNING FOR
ROBUST VISUAL CONTENT UNDERSTANDING

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FAST AND ACCURATE DEEP LEARNING FOR
3-D OBJECT UNDERSTANDING
3-D cameras
Sensors Signal processing
Deep learning
Applications in
industry
Real-world data Data processing

46. PROJECT ON SMART PACKAGING
• First R&D project to receive external funding at GUGC
̶ funding organization: Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT)
̶ partners: ACE Machinery, KIST Europe, and GUGC
̶ budget for GUGC: 2 FTEs
̶ duration for GUGC: July 2017 – December 2019
• Main objective
̶ to develop Industry 4.0 machines for high-speed
and optimal packaging of arbitrary products
 via computer vision and machine learning
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47. PROJECT ON SMART PACKAGING
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48. Thank you for your attention!