BART DE MOOR
Bart De Moor was born Tuesday July 12, 1960 in Halle, Belgium. He is married and has three children.
In 1983, he obtained his Master (Engineering) Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD in Engineering at the same university in 1988. He spent 2 years as a Visiting Research
Associate at Stanford University (1988-1990) at the departments of EE (ISL, Prof. Kailath) and CS (Prof.Golub).
Currently, he is a full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering
(http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be)
of the K.U.Leuven in the research group SCD
(http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista-cosic-docarch/template.php).
His research interests are in numerical linear algebra and optimization, system theory and system identification, quantum information theory, control theory, data-mining, information retrieval and bio-informatics, areas in which he has (co-)authored several books and hundreds of research papers (consult the publication search engine at http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/cgi-bin/pub.pl).
Currently, he is leading a research group of 30 PhD students and 8 postdocs and in the recent past, 55 PhDs were obtained under his guidance. He has been teaching at several universities in Europe and the US. He is also a member of several scientific and professional organizations and jury member of several awards (Tech Art Prize, Innovation Award of the Flemish Government, Barco Innovation Award, ICOS Award, Egemin Award).
His work has won him several scientific awards (Leybold-Heraeus Prize (1986), Leslie Fox Prize (1989), Guillemin-Cauer best paper Award of the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems (1990), Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences (1992), bi-annual Siemens Award (1994), best paper award of Automatica (IFAC, 1996), IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999). Since 2004 he is a fellow of the IEEE (www.ieee.org). He is an associate editor of several scientific journals.
From 1991-1999 he was the chief advisor on Science and Technology of several ministers of the Belgian Federal Government (Demeester, Martens) and the Flanders Regional Governments (Demeester, Van den Brande). From December 2005 to July 2007, he was the chief advisor (‘kabinetschef’) on socio-economic policy of the minister-president of Flanders, Yves Leterme, capacity in which he was the coordinator of a new socio-economic business plan for the Flemish region.
He was and/or is in the board of 6 spin-off companies ( www.ipcos.be, www.data4s.com, www.tml.be, www.silicos.com, www.dsquare.be, www.cartagenia.be), of the Flemish Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology ( www.vib.be), the Study Center for Nuclear Energy ( www.sck.be), the Institute for Broad Band Technology ( www.ibbt.be). He is also the Chairman of the Industrial Research Fund ( www.kuleuven.be/iof, http://www.kuleuven.be/industrialresearchfund/), Hercules (heavy equipment funding in Flanders, www.herculesstichting.be) and several other scientific and cultural organizations. He was a member of the Academic Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and of its Research Policy Council. Since 2002 he also makes regular television appearances in the Science Show ‘Hoe?Zo!’ on national television in Belgium ( www.tv1.be). Full details on his CV can be found at www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~demoor.
Bart De Moor was born Tuesday July 12, 1960 in Halle, Belgium. He is married and has three children.
In 1983, he obtained his Master (Engineering) Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD in Engineering at the same university in 1988. He spent 2 years as a Visiting Research
Associate at Stanford University (1988-1990) at the departments of EE (ISL, Prof. Kailath) and CS (Prof.Golub).
Currently, he is a full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering
(http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be)
of the K.U.Leuven in the research group SCD
(http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista-cosic-docarch/template.php).
His research interests are in numerical linear algebra and optimization, system theory and system identification, quantum information theory, control theory, data-mining, information retrieval and bio-informatics, areas in which he has (co-)authored several books and hundreds of research papers (consult the publication search engine at http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/cgi-bin/pub.pl).
Currently, he is leading a research group of 30 PhD students and 8 postdocs and in the recent past, 55 PhDs were obtained under his guidance. He has been teaching at several universities in Europe and the US. He is also a member of several scientific and professional organizations and jury member of several awards (Tech Art Prize, Innovation Award of the Flemish Government, Barco Innovation Award, ICOS Award, Egemin Award).
His work has won him several scientific awards (Leybold-Heraeus Prize (1986), Leslie Fox Prize (1989), Guillemin-Cauer best paper Award of the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems (1990), Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences (1992), bi-annual Siemens Award (1994), best paper award of Automatica (IFAC, 1996), IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (1999). Since 2004 he is a fellow of the IEEE (www.ieee.org). He is an associate editor of several scientific journals.
From 1991-1999 he was the chief advisor on Science and Technology of several ministers of the Belgian Federal Government (Demeester, Martens) and the Flanders Regional Governments (Demeester, Van den Brande). From December 2005 to July 2007, he was the chief advisor (‘kabinetschef’) on socio-economic policy of the minister-president of Flanders, Yves Leterme, capacity in which he was the coordinator of a new socio-economic business plan for the Flemish region.
He was and/or is in the board of 6 spin-off companies ( www.ipcos.be, www.data4s.com, www.tml.be, www.silicos.com, www.dsquare.be, www.cartagenia.be), of the Flemish Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology ( www.vib.be), the Study Center for Nuclear Energy ( www.sck.be), the Institute for Broad Band Technology ( www.ibbt.be). He is also the Chairman of the Industrial Research Fund ( www.kuleuven.be/iof, http://www.kuleuven.be/industrialresearchfund/), Hercules (heavy equipment funding in Flanders, www.herculesstichting.be) and several other scientific and cultural organizations. He was a member of the Academic Council of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and of its Research Policy Council. Since 2002 he also makes regular television appearances in the Science Show ‘Hoe?Zo!’ on national television in Belgium ( www.tv1.be). Full details on his CV can be found at www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~demoor.