Speaker: Prof. Rudy Lauwereins, Vice-president,  IMEC

Time and Date: 13:00-14:00 pm, November 13, 2018

Place: Room 423 of Scientific Building, Handan Campus,Fudan University

Biography:

Rudy Lauwereins is vice president of imec, which performs world-leading research and delivers industry-relevant technology solutions through global partnerships in nano-electronics, ICT, healthcare and energy. He is director of imec’s Smart Systems Technology Office, guiding the strategic research decisions in vision and telecommunication systems, and in (bio)medical and lifestyle electronics. He also leads the imec Academy, coordinating all external and internal training curricula. He is a part-time Full Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he teaches Computer Architectures in the Master of Science in Elektrotechnical Engineering program.

Before joining imec in 2001, he held a tenure Professorship in the Faculty of Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 1993. He had obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1989.

Professor Lauwereins has authored and co-authored more than 400 publications in international journals, books and conference proceedings. He is a fellow of the IEEE.