Francky Catthoor received a Ph.D. in EE from the Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium in 1987. Between 1987 and 2000, he has headed several research do- mains in the area of synthesis techniques and architectural methodologies, all at IMEC Leuven, Belgium. Since 2000 he is strongly involved in other activities at IMEC including co-exploration of application, computer architecture and deep submicron technology aspects, biomedical systems and IoT sensor nodes, and photo-voltaic modules combined with renewable energy systems. Currently he is an IMEC senior fellow. He is also part-time full professor at the EE department of the KULeuven. He has been associate editor for several IEEE and ACM journals, and was elected IEEE fellow in 2005. After his official retirement from IMEC in Oct 2024, he is now affiliated with the Microlab of NTUAthens in Greece as associated guest professor.
Ittetsu Taniguchi received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 2004, 2006, and 2009, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was an international scholar at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (IMEC), Belgium. In 2009, he joined the College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University as an assistant professor and became a lecturer in 2014. In 2017, he joined the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University as an associate professor. His research interests include system-level design methodology, design methodologies for cyber-physical systems, smart energy management systems, etc. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE and IPSJ.
Pavlos S. Georgilakis (M 01, SM 11) received the Diploma and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1990 and 2000, respectively. In September 2009, he joined as a faculty member the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA, where he is currently a Full Professor. From 2004 to 2009 he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Production Engineering and Management of the Technical University of Crete, Greece. From 1994 to 2003 he was with Schneider Electric AE, the Greek subsidiary of Schneider Electric, where he worked as quality control engineer, transformer design engineer, research and development manager, and low voltage products marketing manager. His current research interests include optimization algorithms and computational intelligence techniques for the optimal operation and planning of smart distribution systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.
