Erik Duval


Erik Duval was a Belgian computer scientist. Duval chaired the informatics section of the computer science department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he also chaired the research unit on human-computer interaction. His research was situated in the long-standing quest to

Life and career

Duval served on the executive committee of the , as a fellow of the , as a member of ACM, and the , on the Editorial Review Board and the Executive Advisory Board of the , as an associate editor of the , on the board of editors of the , and as a member of the informatics section of the .
In the last stages of his research career, Duval and his team were focused on:
Typical application areas for this research included
Duval has published over 100 papers. A selection of the highly cited ones:
In March 2014, Duval was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. After chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, a PET scan mid-January 2015 did not show any more traces of the disease. In the summer of 2015, a new diagnose revealed T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. Duval died on March 12, 2016.

Legacy

To honor the memory of Erik Duval, the Society for Learning Analytics Research created Erik Duval Student Scholarships to provide support for students attending Learning Analytics Summer Institute.
The main auditorium in the Computer Science building of the KU Leuven was named after him, a few months after his death.