Friday July 4th, 2025
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
The BeNeRL is an informal one-day workshop bringing together reinforcement learning researchers from the Belgium-Netherlands region. The program includes several invited regional speakers and a poster session to foster participant interaction. We especially invite PhD students to contribute a poster since it will likely get them in touch with other researchers with similar interests. The workshop is free of charge and includes food throughout the day.
Date 📅
Friday, July 4
Address 📍
Blauwe Zaal in the Auditorium building at TU/e (directions)
Registration 📝
closed
Microsoft Research
Lukas is an AI researcher who aims to create autonomous agents that can efficiently learn to solve complex decision-making tasks in the real world.
DeepMind, TU/e
Ghada is a research scientist developing efficient methods for model adaptation and continuous learning under non-stationary conditions. Her current research interests are continual learning, model merging, sparsity, and reinforcement learning.
University of Liège
Gaspard's research focuses on RL in POMDPs, with an interest in sequence modeling, representation learning, world models, asymmetric learning, and generalization.
Utrecht University
Shihan's research focuses on reinforcement learning algorithms that can learn optimal policies through efficient and effective human-agent or agent-agent interactions, particularly in the context of communication.
08:45-09:15 Arrival (☕)
09:15-09:30 Opening
09:30-10:15 Invited talk: Lukas Schäfer
10:15-11:00 Invited talk: Shihan Wang
11:00-12:15 Speed dating networking (☕)
12:15-13:30 Lunch (🍴)
13:30-14:15 Invited talk: Ghada Sokar
14:15-15:00 Invited talk: Gaspard Lambrechts
15:00-17:00 Poster Session (☕)
17:00-17:15 Closing
17:15-17:30 Walk to reception
17:30-19:30 Reception (🍹)
The poster boards are suitable for an A0 vertical format.
The workshop will take place in the Auditorium building on the Eindhoven University of Technology campus.
Address: Groene Loper 1, 5613 CM, Eindhoven
Train. The campus is less than a 10-minute walk from Eindhoven Central Station (Eindhoven Centraal).
Car. See this page for details about parking.