# Bert de Vries

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# Bert de Vries

- [Personal URL](http://bertdv.nl "Personal site")
- [PURE url](https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/a-bert-de-vries/ "Research Portal")

##### Contact

[bert.de.vries@tue.nl](#)

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##### Department / Institute

[Electrical Engineering](https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/departments/electrical-engineering)

[EAISI](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/eaisi)

##### Group

[Bayesian Intelligent Autonomous Systems](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/signal-processing-systems/biaslab)

[Signal Processing Systems](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/research-groups/signal-processing-systems)

EAISI Foundational

EAISI Health

EAISI High Tech Systems

## RESEARCH PROFILE

Bert de Vries is a Professor in the Signal Processing Systems group. His research focuses on the development of intelligent autonomous agents that learn from in-situ interactions with their environment. We aim to use these agents to automate the development of novel signal processing and control algorithms, see [biaslab.org](http://biaslab.org). Our research draws inspiration from diverse fields including computational neuroscience, Bayesian machine learning, and signal processing systems. A current major application area concerns the personalization of medical signal processing systems such as hearing aid algorithms. In the past, De Vries contributed to research projects over a wide range of signal and image processing topics, such as word spotting, financial market prediction, and breast cancer detection from mammograms.

> I believe that development of signal processing systems will in the future be largely automated by autonomously operating agents that learn purposeful (signal processing) behavior from situated environmental interactions.

## ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Bert de Vries received M.Sc. (1986) and Ph.D. (1991) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and the University of Florida, respectively. From 1992 to 1999, he worked as a research scientist at Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton (NJ, USA). Since 1999, he has been employed in the hearing aids industry, both in engineering and managerial positions. De Vries was appointed professor in the Signal Processing Systems Group at TU/e in 2012.

## Key Publications

- [See all publications](https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/a-bert-de-vries//publications/)

- [### A factor graph description of deep temporal active inference

  Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

  (2017)

  A. de Vries,K.J. Friston](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/1f83c36e-6795-4ab5-8884-5430b3a75d35)
- [### The graphical brain: belief propagation and active inference

  Network Neuroscience

  (2017)

  K.J. Friston,T. Parr,B. de Vries](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/87798d99-f90e-4775-839c-0a0cc69e59eb)
- [### A probabilistic modeling approach to hearing loss compensation

  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

  (2016)

  T.W. van de Laar,A. de Vries](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/f3bc3b57-231f-4325-b058-e20b5139bc56)
- [### An adaptive Kalman filter for ECG signal enhancement

  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

  (2011)

  R. Vullings,B. Vries, de,J.W.M. Bergmans](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/ee39911a-a7c1-4abd-bb30-d01cb10c6a98)
- [### The gamma model : a new neural network for temporal processing

  Neural Networks

  (1992)

  B. Vries, de](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/e1b87909-70e6-461d-b768-0003641567d1)

## Ancillary Activities

- co-founder, Lazy Dynamics BV
- owner, Bert de Vries Holding BV