Roel Wuyts
Roel Wuyts is principal scientist at imec and part-time professor at imec- DistriNet – KU Leuven. His main research interest is in the runtime management layer of future high-performance computing hardware. Before joining imec, he was Associate Professor at the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles). He obtained his PhD in computer science from the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Roel Wuyts has served as member in various conference program committees such as ECOOP, OOPSLA, SC, Net.ObjectDays, or ESUG, organized workshops such as the DATE'08 Workshop on Software Engineering for Embedded Systems, and reviewed papers for TOPLAS or TOSEM.
Authored articles
New privacy-preserving AI can have a profound impact on the future of medicine
Data sharing is needed to advance medicine. But for practical, business, IP or legal reasons, sharing the data (such as with federated data approaches) or the models (such as with federated learning) is impossible or highly controversial. Fortunately, imec has developed a solution that protects patients’ privacy and businesses’ commercial interests
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How data and life sciences could fall in love
Data for life sciences: the inhibitors and how to overcome them.
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ExaScience Life Lab helps pharma companies dig for drug candidates in existing data
High-performance computers process and mine the enormous amounts of data from molecule testing for drug discovery to get new insights.
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