Anthony Liekens Explained

Anthony Liekens
Birth Date:12 December 1975
Birth Place:Sint Niklaas, Belgium
Fields:Engineering, Electronics
Workplaces:Eindhoven University of Technology
University of Antwerp
IO lab
Makerspace Antwerpen
Known For:Team Scheire[1]

Anthony Liekens (born 12 December 1975) is a Belgian informaticist, biologist, inventor and educator.

Life and career

Anthony Liekens obtained his master's in computer science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2000 with extra curricular courses at the University of Antwerp and obtained his PhD in biomedical technology at Eindhoven University of Technology in 2005.[2]

Projects

Hackerspace

Liekens operates the Open Garage hackerspace, residing as Belgian national radio's scientist where he shares educational knowledge with the community.[3] [4] [5]

Vlaams Woordenboek (Flemish Dictionary)

In September 2007, Liekens launched Vlaams Woordenboek,[6] a website with the aim of establishing an online Flemish dialectal dictionary.

Fri3d Camp

In 2014, Liekens launched Fri3d Camp, a 2-yearly family-friendly hacker camp that is seen as the main Belgian hacker camp.[7] [8]

Corona Denktank

In March 2020, days before the COVID-19 lockdown in Belgium, Liekens founded Corona Denktank, a civil movement that designed and built alternative solutions to lessen the suffering and to reduce the spread of the virus.[9] [10] Under his leadership, the movement grew to tens of thousands of contributors. Over its two months of operation, Corona Denktank initiated over 40 projects, including the distributed production of homemade facemasks,[11] the launch of Praatbox, a barrier-free videoconferencing tool without accounts which quickly grew to 40 thousand users per day,[12] collected and distributed 15 thousand laptops to school children.[13] and collaborated together with king Philippe of Belgium to honor heroes of the pandemic.[14]

Selected academic works

Most-cited papers:

Personal life

He is married and has 2 children.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Team Scheire - Homepage . Canvas.
  2. Web site: Evolution of finite populations in dynamic environments . Liekens . Anthony.
  3. Web site: Meetup: Open Garage Hackerspace . Meetup.com.
  4. Web site: Radio 1: De wereld van wetenschap voor ons uitgelegd . Radio 1. 5 June 2015 .
  5. News: Hobson . James . 22 October 2013 . Hackerspacing in Europe: Open Garage in Antwerp . EN . Hackaday .
  6. Web site: Vlaams Woordenboek. 21 April 2023.
  7. Web site: Fri3d Camp . Fri3d Camp . Fri3d Camp Orga .
  8. News: Adriaensen . Wouter . 16 August 2016 . Driedaags kamp in De Hoge Rielen leidt hackers op . Three-day camp in De Hoge Rielen trains hackers . NL . Gazet van Antwerpen . 23 April 2023.
  9. News: Van Wynsberghe . Elien . 17 March 2020 . Na oproep Lieven Scheire: burgerbeweging verklaart oorlog aan coronavirus . NL . GVA . 21 April 2023.
  10. News: 1 April 2020 . We hebben een leger nerds opgeroepen . NL . De Standaard . 21 April 2023.
  11. Web site: Universiteit Antwerpen . De Grote Coronastudie . NL . 21 April 2023.
  12. Web site: Corona Denktank . Praatbox.be . 21 April 2023.
  13. Web site: Digital For Youth . Digital for Youth geeft duizenden afgedankte laptops een nieuw leven . 24 August 2020 . 21 April 2023.
  14. News: Koning Filip ontvangt de laureaten van #HoopDoetLeven: wie zijn deze zes "coronahelden"? . Feyten . Filip . VRT NWS . 2 September 2020 . 21 April 2023.
  15. Reumers . Joke . De Rijk . Peter . Zhao . Hui . Liekens . Anthony . Smeets . Dominiek . Cleary . John . Van Loo . Peter . Van Den Bossche . Maarten . Catthoor . Kirsten . Sabbe . Bernard . Despierre . Evelyn . Vergote . Ignace . Hilbush . Brian . Lambrechts . Diether . Del-Favero . Jurgen . Optimized filtering reduces the error rate in detecting genomic variants by short-read sequencing . Nature Biotechnology . 18 December 2011 . 30 . 1 . 61–68 . 10.1038/nbt.2053. 22178994 . free .
  16. Liekens . Anthony ML . De Knijf . Jeroen . Daelemans . Walter . Goethals . Bart . De Rijk . Peter . Del-Favero . Jurgen . BioGraph: unsupervised biomedical knowledge discovery via automated hypothesis generation . Genome Biology . 2011 . 12 . 6 . R57 . 10.1186/gb-2011-12-6-r57. 21696594 . 3218845 . free .
  17. Fernando. Chrisantha T. Liekens. Anthony M.L. Bingle. Lewis E.H. Beck. Christian. Lenser. Thorsten. Stekel. Dov J. Rowe. Jonathan E. 6 May 2009. Molecular circuits for associative learning in single-celled organisms. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 6. 34. 463–469. 10.1098/rsif.2008.0344. 2582189. 18835803.

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