Rudy Lauwereins (º1959) obtained his M.Eng. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1983 and 1989 respectively. In 1991, he was a visiting researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA on a postdoctoral NFWO research fellowship. In 1998, he acted as advisor to the team that won the Northern European section of the Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge. In 2000, he was elected by students as the best teacher of the engineering faculty’s Master’s curriculum and got a nomination for the same prize in 2001.
He became a Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1993 and vice-president of Imec in 2001.
His main research interests are in computer architectures, implementation of interactive multimedia applications on dynamically reconfigurable platforms and wireless communication. In these fields, he has authored and co-authored more than 250 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.
He is married to Lieve Bosmans and has 3 children, Bart, Steven and Liesbet.