Dr. Fons van der Sommen is an Associate Professor at the research group Video Coding and Architectures of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his MSc. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Vision from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2012 and 2017, respectively. In 2018, after serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at TU/e for a year, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the research group Video Coding and Architectures of the TU/e Department of Electrical Engineering. He has worked on a variety of image processing and computer vision applications, mainly in the medical domain. His research interests include signal processing and information theory and strives to exploit methods from these fields to improve the robustness, efficiency, and interpretability of modern-day AI architectures, such as convolutional neural networks.