معرفی
Mihai Bace serves as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven's Faculty of Engineering Technology. He is a core member of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research group and holds dual affiliations with Leuven.AI (KU Leuven Institute for Artificial Intelligence) and LILI (KU Leuven Interdisciplinary Language Institute). His academic governance roles include membership on the Faculty of Engineering Technology Council and Computer Science Department Council.
His research specializes in eye tracking, gaze estimation, and interactive behavior modeling, leveraging machine learning to decode user intent through visual attention and input modalities. Key applications span mental face reconstruction, saliency prediction for visualizations, and adaptive interfaces. Recent work integrates neural networks for gaze-based personalization and 3D saliency modeling, emphasizing real-time usability in extended reality contexts.
Publications from 2023-2025 reveal dominant trends in human-AI collaboration (e.g., interactive face reconstruction) and multimodal behavior analysis (e.g., mouse/gaze fusion). His projects consistently bridge computer vision, deep learning, and user studies to solve HCI challenges in visualization recall, viewport prediction, and input semantics. Major contributions appear in ACM CHI, ETRA, and UIST conferences.
As Promotor for Computational Modelling of Interactive Behaviour (2023-2025) and Gaze Estimation and Visual Attention Modelling (2024-2028), plus Co-promotor for Head Pose Estimation (2024-2028), he leads funded research in predictive interaction systems. His lab, the HCI Group T Leuven Campus, develops methodologies for gaze-driven interfaces and behavioral embeddings, with future work focusing on dual-space fusion networks and natural language integration for interactive systems.
