Bart Vanrumste received an MSc in Electrical Engineering, MSc in Biomedical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Ghent University, Belgium in 1994, 1998, and 2001 respectively. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow until 2003 at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University Of Canterbury, New Zealand. From 2003 until 2005 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) in the STADIUS division at KU Leuven, Belgium. In 2005 he was appointed faculty member initially at University of Applied Sciences Thomas More and since 2013 in the Faculty of Engineering Technology of KU Leuven. He is member of the e-Media research lab and member of the ESAT-STADIUS division. His research interests are decision support in healthcare in general and ICT applications for aging in place in particular. His current research activities focus among other on multimodal sensor integration for monitoring of older persons.