Hi! My name is Sofie Goethals. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp. Prior to that, I obtained my PhD in the Applied Data Mining group at the University of Antwerp, supervised by Professor David Martens, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia Business School, supervised by Professor Sandra Matz.
🔊 Recent News
- 2026-06 📝 New preprint: LLM Consumer Behavior Theory: Foundations of a Novel Research Field!
- 2026-06 📄 Our paper On the Definition and Detection of Cherry-Picking in Counterfactual Explanations is published in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery!
- 2026-05 📄 Our paper Would a Large Language Model Pay Extra for a View? Inferring Willingness to Pay from Subjective Choices is published in Expert Systems with Applications!
- 2026-04 📄 Our paper Reranking individuals: The effect of fair classification within-groups is published in the ACM Journal on Responsible Computing!
- 2026-01 🗣 Presenting our work Adapting Multiverse Analysis for Prediction: A Decision-Maker’s Dashboard at AAAI Workshops!
Research Interests
Employment
Assistant Professor · University of Antwerp November 2025 – Present
Postdoctoral Researcher · Columbia Business School October 2024 – October 2025
Supported by FWO postdoctoral fellowship, BAEF and Fulbright
PhD Researcher · University of Antwerp September 2020 – September 2024
Supported by FWO doctoral fellowship
Visiting Researcher · Oxford Internet Institute January 2024 – March 2024
As part of the Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies · Supported by FWO travel grant
Visiting Researcher · NYU Stern January 2023 – May 2023
Supported by FWO travel grant
Intern · Accenture Liquid Studios 2020
Education
Master in Artificial Intelligence · KU Leuven 2019 – 2020
Master in Business Engineering · KU Leuven 2017 – 2019
Bachelor in Business Engineering · KU Leuven 2014 – 2017