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Tim Verbelen

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Co-Founder, CTO at The Blanket
📍 Dendermonde, Flemish Region, Belgium

Tim Verbelen is the Co-Founder and CTO of The Blanke and Director of the Intelligent Systems Lab at VERSES. He holds a Ph.D. from Ghent University and specializes in teaching robots perception and control skills using active inference, a principle he has followed since 1986.

He is deeply engaged in the academic community as a co-lecturer at Ghent University for a course on Deep Generative Models. Tim is a frequent speaker at industry events, sharing his research on active inference and its applications in creating intelligent systems that can interact with the world.

Unique fact: Tims professional headline states he has been "Minimizing Free Energy since 1986," a direct and witty reference to his core research focus.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Co-Founder, CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Dendermonde, Flemish Region, Belgium
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Active Inference
The central theme of his work at The Blanke and VERSES. He champions it as a superior alternative to current large-scale AI models for building intelligent agents.
Embodied AI
His focus is on developing robots that can think before they act and learn abstract tasks, moving beyond simple data-driven AI systems.
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Career

Work history

6-2026
Co-Founder, CTO
The Blanket
9-2024 - 5-2026
Director Intelligent Systems Lab
VERSES
2-2023 - 9-2024
Senior Machine Learning Researcher
VERSES
1-2021 - 1-2023
Lecturer
Ghent University
10-2016 - 1-2023
Senior Researcher
imec
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Education
2009 - 2013
Doctor of Philosophy
Ghent University
2007 - 2009
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Ghent University
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