Gilles Vandewiele

Gilles Vandewiele is the Chief Product Officer at Optioryx, a company dedicated to optimizing the transportation of goods by enhancing the stacking of items in boxes, boxes on pallets, and pallets in trucks, while also improving the assortment of boxes based on historical data. Prior to this role, Gilles served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University from October 2021 to August 2022 and was a PhD student at the same institution from August 2016 to April 2021, earning a Doctor of Computer Science Engineering with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Gilles also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science Engineering from Ghent University, completed between 2014 and 2016, and studied at KA Vijverhof from 2005 to 2011.