Rate My Professor Katrien Verbert

Katrien Verbert is a Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Computer Science within the Faculty of Engineering Science at KU Leuven. She is affiliated with the Augment research group in the Human-Computer Interaction division and serves as a member of the KU Leuven Research Council, Leuven.AI, DigiSoc – KU Leuven Digital Society Institute, and program director of the Proof of Concept Digital Humanities. Verbert obtained her doctoral degree in Computer Science from KU Leuven in 2008. She held a postdoctoral position funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) at KU Leuven, followed by Assistant Professor roles at Eindhoven University of Technology from 2013 to 2014 and Vrije Universiteit Brussel from 2014 to 2015, before joining KU Leuven as a professor.

Her research specializes in human-centred explainable AI, interactive recommender systems, visual analytics, and their applications in learning analytics, healthcare, precision agriculture, media consumption, and digital humanities. Key publications include "Learning Analytics Dashboard Applications" (2013), "Panorama of Recommender Systems to Support Learning" (2015), "Review of research on student-facing learning analytics dashboards and educational recommender systems" (2017), "Directive Explanations for Monitoring the Risk of Diabetes Onset" (2023), and "Explanatory Debiasing: Involving Domain Experts in the Data Generation Process to Mitigate Representation Bias in AI Systems" (2025). Verbert has shaped the field through extensive conference leadership, serving as program chair for the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024), ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025), International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2020), and general chair for the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2017). She is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and teaches courses such as Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualisation, and Data Visualisation at KU Leuven.