Rudy Lauwereins

Rudy Lauwereins is vice president at imec, which performs world-leading research and delivers industry-relevant technology solutions through global partnerships in nano-electronics, ICT, healthcare and energy. He is responsible for imec's Smart Systems Technology Office, covering energy efficient green radios, vision systems, (bio)medical and lifestyle electronics as well as wireless autonomous transducer systems and large area organic electronics. He is also a part-time Full Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he teaches Computer Architectures in the Master of Science in Electrotechnical Engineering program, and a director of the Institute for BroadBand Technologies (IBBT). 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 350 publications in international journals, books and conference proceedings.