Rudy Lauwereins
IMEC, KUL, Belgium
Rudy Lauwereins is Vice President of
IMEC, Belgium's Interuniversity Micro-
Electronic Center, which performs research
in microelectronics, nano-technology, design
methods and technologies for ICT systems,
that is 3 to 10 years ahead of industrial
needs. He leads the DESICS division
of 185 researchers. He focuses on the development
of re-configurable architectures,
design methods, and tools for wireless and
multimedia applications as required for creating an ambient intelligent
world with smart networked mobile devices. He is also
a part-time Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium,
where he teaches computer architectures in the Master of
Science in Electrotechnical Engineering Program. Before joining
IMEC in 2001, he held a tenure professorship in the Faculty of Engineering
at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 1993, after a
short stay at IBM's Almaden Research Centre, San Jose, Calif. He
received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1989. In 2001,
he was elected by students as the best teacher of the engineering faculty's
Master's curriculum. Lauwereins served in numerous international
program committees and organizational committees, and
gave many invited and keynote speeches. He is a senior member of
the IEEE. Professor Lauwereins has authored and coauthored more
than 300 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.
Biography Updated on 20 May 2003
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