Bio

Alexander Ek is a Postdoctoral Research in the the Declarative Languages and Artificial Intelligence Section at KU Leuven. In 2022, He received his PhD degree in computer science from Monash University. Most of his research centres around combinatorial optimisation, data- and logic-driven decision-making under uncertainty, proof-logging, and trustworthy and explainable AI/software/elections.

Address

Postal
Alexander Ek
Declaratieve Talen en AI Leuven
Celestijnenlaan 200a
3001 Heverlee
Belgium

Office (Arenberg Campus)
Room 01.167, Level 1
Celestijnenlaan 200a
3001 Heverlee
Belgium

Email
Firstname.Lastname (at) kuleuven.be

Education

PhD in Computer Science   Monash University, Australia
2022
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Guido Tack, Prof. Maria Garcia de la Banda, Prof. Peter J. Stuckey, and Dr. Andreas Schutt.
Dissertation: High-Level Modelling and Solving for Online, Real-Time, and Multiagent Combinatorial Optimisation

MSc in Computer Science   Uppsala University, Sweden
2018

BSc in Computer Science   Uppsala University, Sweden
2016

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Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher   KU Leuven, Belgium
Jul 2025–present
Hosted by: Prof. Bart Bogaerts.

Postdoctoral Researcher   Monash University, Australia
Mar 2023–Jul 2025
Hosted by: Assoc. Prof. Damjan Vukcevic.

Associate Investigator   OPTIMA ARC, Australia
Jul 2022–Jul 2025

Postdoctoral Researcher   The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jul 2022–Mar 2023
Hosted by: Assoc. Prof. Damjan Vukcevic.

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Honours and Awards

Best Paper Award   8th International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting
2023

Quality Conference Travel Fund Grant   Monash University, Australia
2022

Doctoral Program Travel Grant   The Association for Constraint Programming, France
2022

Graduate Research Completion Award   Monash University, Australia
2022

Best Poster Award   International School in AI and its Applications in Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
2021

Postgraduate Travel Grant   Monash University, Australia
2019

Doctoral Program Travel Grant   The Association for Constraint Programming, France
2019

Data61 Top-up Scholarship   CSIRO Data61, Australia
2018–2022

Faculty Co-Funded Monash Graduate Scholarship   Monash University, Australia
2018–2022

Faculty of IT International Postgraduate Research Scholarship   Monash University, Australia
2018–2022

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