Marie-Francine Moens
Scholar

Marie-Francine Moens

Google Scholar ID: O9hYMUUAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science KU Leuven
Natural language processing and understandingmachine learninginformation retrievalmultimedia
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
7,180
 
H-index
42
 
i10-index
136
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
134
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Holder of the ERC Advanced Grant CALCULUS (2018-2024); Published multiple papers at NeurIPS 2025, ACL 2025, and other international conferences; Authored the book 'Spatial Language Understanding: Representation, Reasoning, and Grounding'.
Research Experience
  • Served as coordinator or chair for several important projects and conferences such as the MUSE project (2012-2016), EMNLP 2021 general chair, and is currently an associate editor of IEEE TPAMI.
Education
  • Holds a MSc and PhD in Computer Science from KU Leuven; Appointed as a BOF-ZAP Research Professor at KU Leuven in 2005.
Background
  • Research interests include machine learning for natural language processing and the joint processing of language and visual data, representation learning, deep learning, structured prediction and generation models, etc.
Miscellany
  • ELLIS Fellow 2020; Delivered keynotes and tutorials at various international conferences; Involved in the scientific management of the EU COST action iV&L Net (The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language).