Piet Demeester

Piet Demeester is full professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University (UGent). He is director of the IDLab-Department, part of imec and of Ghent University / University of Antwerp. IDLab (Internet Technology and Data Science Lab) counts about 350 researchers and is focussing on the following key areas : electromagnetics and high speed circuit design, wireless networks, fixed networks, cloud and big data infrastructures, multimedia processing, semantic intelligence, machine learning & data mining, AI for robotics and IoT. Piet Demeester became fellow of the IEEE in 2009 for “contributions to optical communication networks and technologies”. Piet Demeester holds an ERC Advanced Grant “ATTO: Ultra High Capacity Wireless Networking” (2017 – 2021). The ERC grant is focusing on a new generation optical/wireless networks to support distributed High Performance Computing in a mobile environment.

Keywords: optical communications, wireless communications, networked intelligence

Key publications
  • “ATTO: Wireless networking at Fiber Speed”; G. Torfs, H. Li, S. Agneessens, J. Bauwelinck, L. Breyne, O. Caytan, W. Joseph, S. Lemey, H. Rogier, A. Thielens, D. Vande Ginste, J. Van Kerrebrouck, G. Vermeeren, X. Yin, P. Demeester, Journal of Lightwave Technology, ISSN 0733-8724, Vol. 36, Nr. 8, April 2018, pp. 1468-1477.
  • “i-ADHoRe 3.0 : fast and sensitive detection of genomic homology in extremely large data set “; S. Proost, J. Fostier,D. De Witte,B. Dhoedt, P. Demeester ,Y. Van de Peer, K. Vandepoele; NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH. 2012; 40(2)
  • “A surrogate modeling and adaptive sampling toolbox for computer based design”; D. Gorissen, I. Couckuyt, P. Demeester, T. Dhaene, K. Crombecq, Journal of Machine Learning Research 11 (Jul 2010), 2051-2055
  • “Worldwide energy needs for ICT: The rise of power-aware networking”, M. Pickavet, W. Vereecken, S. Demeyer, P. Audenaert, B. Vermeulen, C. Develder, D. Colle, D. Dhoedt, P. Demeester; Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS’08), IEEE, 2008.
  • “Dimensioning of survivable WDM networks”; B. Van Caenegem, W. Van Parys, F. De Turck, P. Demeester; IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS. 1998;16(7):1146–57
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