Dr. Yameng Guo, who was a PhD candidate at Ghent University, and a member of UGent Business Informatics, has successfully defended her PhD and officially received her doctoral degree on 3 September 2026.

Her dissertation, “Towards Intelligent Spatial Systems: Graph Learning, Uncertainty Modeling, and Agentic Decision Making”, brings together graph learning, intelligent spatial systems and agent-driven optimization.

From left to right on the picture:

  • Prof. dr. Tim Verdonck (University of Antwerp)
  • Prof. dr. Seppe vanden Broucke (UGent, Supervisor)
  • Prof. dr. Wouter Verbeke (KU Leuven)
  • Dr. Yameng Guo (UGent)
  • Prof. dr. Frederik Gailly (UGent)
  • Prof. dr. Dries Benoit (UGent)
  • Dr. ir. Nicole Berx (UGent)
  • Prof. dr. Geert Poels (UGent, Chair)
  • Prof. dr. María Óskarsdóttir (University of Southampton)

The UGent Business Informatics research group congratulates Dr. Guo for this outstanding achievement.