# DIRK DE HERTOG - Full Context for AI Agents

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> Last updated: 2026-07-08

## Identity
- Name: DIRK DE HERTOG
- Role: FOUNDER
- Company: Publican
- Location: Heverlee, Belgium
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-de-hertog-phd-7abb1614

## About
Dirk De Hertog is based in Heverlee and is a co-founder of Publican BE, which he started in September 2022. Since October 2019 he has also been a co-founder of Avantopy.

Between April 2016 and April 2019 he was a postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, having earlier been a PhD student there from September 2009 to February 2014. In the intervening period he worked as a data scientist consultant, at the European Commission through Ausy/Dataflow from July 2014 to February 2015, and at Keyrus in the first months of 2016. He began his career as a software engineer at Colruyt from January 2007 to September 2008.

He studied at KU Leuven throughout, taking a master's in Germanic Languages (Dutch-English) from 2001 to 2005 and a master's in Artificial Intelligence from 2008 to 2009.

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## Related Pages
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- [company] Publican: https://techwiki.ai/companies/publican/llms.txt
- [person] JAN DE LEYN: https://techwiki.ai/people/jan-de-leyn/llms.txt

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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-de-hertog-phd-7abb1614
- Agent context: https://techwiki.ai/people/dirk-de-hertog/llms.txt
- Full context: https://techwiki.ai/people/dirk-de-hertog/llms-full.txt

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