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Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

- definition of smart region strategy and roadmap in close collaboration with provincial authorities; discussing policies with provincial management and deputy- leading smart city team, managing program consisting of several priorities and projects – managing budget and resources- interaction with local, provincial and regional governments: both with.

Leuven, Belgium

- indepth knowledge of smart city technology, solutions and supplier ecosystem- managing several projects: reducing cut-through traffic in residential areas, real-time measurement of water pollution in rivers, providing elderly with an easy to use video calling solution during corona pandemic, data-driven location advice for companies, digital signage to.

Leuven, Belgium

Leuven, Belgium

- stimulating, initiating and coordinating collaborations between Flemish companies and imec's technology units- covering a wide range of technologies: wearables, hyperspectral cameras, lens-free microscopy, sensors, ultrasound, large area electronics … - setting up bilateral collaborations ranging from technology explorations, feasibility studies.

Brussels Area, Belgium

- driving adoption of Microsoft technologies in higher education (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) by offering free access to software, providing learning materials and organizing lectures, workshops, summer schools, roadshows, events and certification for students and professors- responsible for local implementation, support and marketing of.

Antwerp Area, Belgium

- working together with different hardware vendors (Broadcom, Atheros, …), selecting wireless 802.11n chipsets, defining and performing tests in a controlled environment (wireless channel emulator) to benchmark different reference boards, both on client and access point side- assisting product development, product marketing and support teams around.

Leuven, Belgium

- teaching activities in the field of computer networking: exercise sessions, labs, student projects- supervision of 10 master theses- successful collaborations with industry: Cisco (building out a networking lab at the university with routers, switches, VoIP and wifi, training students to configure equipment and troubleshoot setup), Opnet (integrating.

- research on advanced mathematical models that mimic packet streams on data networks- generating artificial traffic load patterns and simulating/emulating delay, jitter and loss of packets in multimedia scenarios- several presentations at prestigious international conferences (e.g. IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, …)- invited guest lecture at George Washington.

Leuven, Belgium

- study, design, simulation, optimization and measurement of high-speed LEDs for application in chip-to-chip optical interconnects

Short Focused Programme: "Product Management", Marketing

Coursera Course: "Developing Innovative Ideas For New Companies:The First Step In Entrepreneurship", Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, 99.8%

- Entrepreneurial Perspective - Entrepreneurial Mindset, Motivations and Behaviors - Industry Understanding - Customer Understanding and.

Coursera Course: "An Introduction To Marketing" (Wharton School), Marketing, 98.0%

- Branding - Customer Centricity - Go to Market Strategies

Coursera Course: "Foundations Of Business Strategy", Business/Commerce, General, 85.5%

- Strategic Analysis - Industry Structure - Firm Capabilities - Competitive Position

Ph.D., Mathematical Models For Internet Traffic, Performance Analysis Of Network Infrastructure

- Dissertation "Mathematical Modelling of Aggregated Traffic Streams on the Internet" (April 2007)

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Electronics Engineering, Option Ict-Telecommunications (Burgerlijk Ingenieur), Magna Cum Laude (Grote Onderscheiding)

- Thesis on "Performance Analysis of Wavelet Packet based Multicarrier Modulation Systems" - Awarded "Magna cum Laude" each year

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