Prof. Dr. Erik Mannens is the Director at imec UAntwerp IDLab and a Professor at UAntwerp (Sustainable AI) and at Ghent University (Semantic Intelligence). Since 2005, he has successfully managed +160 “interdisciplinary” projects (amounting to EUR 30M of Funding for his team) and teams of 50 to 125
researchers. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering (2011) at UGent, his Master’s degree in Computer Science (1995) at K.U. Leuven University, and his Master’s degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering (1992) at KAHO Ghent. Being 50+, he now tends to only take on new projects that will have a positive and lasting impact on Society and “Spaceship Earth” as a whole! #SustainableDevelopmentGoals ... As such, he took on the Operational Lead of SOLID Lab Flanders for half a year in 2022, and he is now heading imec UAntwerp IDLab, where they are working toward Sustainable AI. As such, he now heads a Data Science team of +125 Wireless Communication and AI Experts that research all aspects of the Sustainability of AI. Since 2008, Erik has paved the Open Data path in Flanders. He stood at the cradle of the first Hackathons and is a founding member of the Open Knowledge Foundation (Belgian Chapter). Since then, he has frequently been invited as an Open Data evangelist, Smart City expert, and Ethical AI specialist at national and international events. He currently
actively participates in several W3C standardization groups.
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Prof. Dr. Erik Mannens is the Director at imec UAntwerp IDLab and a Professor at UAntwerp (Sustainable AI) and at Ghent University (Semantic Intelligence). Since 2005, he has successfully managed +160 “interdisciplinary” projects (amounting to EUR 30M of Funding for his team) and teams of 50 to 125
researchers. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering (2011) at UGent, his Master’s degree in Computer Science (1995) at K.U. Leuven University, and his Master’s degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering (1992) at KAHO Ghent. Being 50+, he now tends to only take on new projects that will have a positive and lasting impact on Society and “Spaceship Earth” as a whole! #SustainableDevelopmentGoals ... As such, he took on the Operational Lead of SOLID Lab Flanders for half a year in 2022, and he is now heading imec UAntwerp IDLab, where they are working toward Sustainable AI. As such, he now heads a Data Science team of +125 Wireless Communication and AI Experts that research all aspects of the Sustainability of AI. Since 2008, Erik has paved the Open Data path in Flanders. He stood at the cradle of the first Hackathons and is a founding member of the Open Knowledge Foundation (Belgian Chapter). Since then, he has frequently been invited as an Open Data evangelist, Smart City expert, and Ethical AI specialist at national and international events. He currently
actively participates in several W3C standardization groups.
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