Jo De Boeck

Executive Vice President and CSO at imec
Author

Jo De Boeck joined the company in 1991 after earning his Ph.D. from KU Leuven. He has held various leadership roles, including head of the Microsystems division and CTO. He is also a part-time professor at KU Leuven and was a visiting professor at TU Delft. Jo oversees imec's strategic direction and is a member of the Executive Board. 

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Authored articles

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Europe’s pilot line to enable future compute systems

21/10/2024
Vision
CMOS: advanced & beyond

Accelerating beyond-2nm chip innovation across Europe

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Super Human Perception and New Compute Paradigms: How imec is Driving Autonomous Innovation

21/09/2023
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Imec’s Jo De Boeck talks about the ITF World highlights in EE Journal’s Fish Fry podcast

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Collaboration as Europe’s strength in the global war for talent

22/09/2022
Opinion
General

At imec, we believe a collaborative investment in knowledge and skills can be a crucial differentiator to shape, attract, and retain technology talents.

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The Next Generation of Robots: Inspired by Nature, Tailored by Humans

20/01/2022
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Artificial intelligence

To interact with the people around them, robots need humanlike senses. They might even need to be equipped with some sort of ‘artificial intuition’.

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Holst Centre – 15 years of open innovation

15/10/2021
imec The Netherlands

Dutch version

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AI uses too much energy. How can we solve this problem?

15/02/2021
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Artificial intelligence

AI is able to distinguish a dog from a cat, but the billions of calculations needed to do so demand quite a lot of energy. The human brain can do the same thing while using only a small fraction of this energy. Could this inspire us to develop more energy-efficient AI systems?

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Is the Fully Autonomous Car Poised for Failure?

24/09/2020
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Automotive
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How the Web Failed Its Own Inventor

14/01/2020
Expertise

Jo De Boeck – Chief Strategy Officer, imec

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Flanders amongst the global leaders in AI research and transfer to industry

13/05/2019
Artificial intelligence

Preface by Jo De Boeck, Chief Strategy Officer imec.

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