Vincent Stragier is a PhD student at the University of Mons (UMONS). He is working on an interactive assistant for visually impaired and blind people within the ISIA Lab, a department of the Faculty of Engineering. His project is funded through a PhD grant from the Œuvre fédérale Les Amis des Aveugles et Malvoyants ASBL - The Friends of the Blind and Visually Impaired Federal Charity -, Ghlin, Belgium. His research interests are mainly focused on NLP, large language models and computer vision related topics.
In 2021, he obtains his master’s degree in electrical Engineering, specialized in Signals, Systems and BioEngineering from the Faculty of Engineering in Mons. In 2020, he works on an epilepsy detection pipeline base on an XGBoost classifier built by the CETIC, where he is Engineer Intern at the time. During his studies, he participates in the electronic student association, electroLAB, and the Erasmus Student Network of Mons, ESNMons. In his free time, he likes taking photographs, fixing various things (hardware and software related), learning new skills.