We are pleased to announce that Vincent Vandeghinste joined the CLARIN ERIC Board of Directors ( ) on 1 January 2025. He will take over from Francesca Frontini, whose second term on the BoD ended at the end of 2024. Vandeghinste will be working with the other BoD members and the executive director Darja Fišer on the development and implementation of the CLARIN strategy and policy.
Currently, Vincent Vandeghinste is a senior researcher at the Dutch Language Institute (Netherlands), where he is also a member of the senior management team. He is a guest professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven (Belgium), where he teaches courses on machine translation and machine learning and is a member of the Centre for Computational Linguistics and of Leuven.AI.
Vincent is an expert in language technologies, focusing on language technologies for inclusion, machine translation, language equality and language infrastructure. He has been involved in the creation of several language technology resources, including corpora and treebanks for Dutch, and several sign language data sets.
Vincent has been involved with CLARIN in many ways: At the national level, he is founder and coordinator of CLARIN Belgium and K-Dutch, the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Dutch, and he is involved in the CLARIAH-VL and CLARIAH-VL+ projects. He is also a member of the Knowledge Infrastructure Committee (KIC), and was the Programme Committee chair of CLARIN2024, as well as local organiser of CLARIN2023.
Within the BoD, he plans to focus on knowledge infrastructure and user involvement.