K.U.Leuven
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven - www.kuleuven.be/), founded in 1425, is Belgium’s largest university with about 37,000 students. As a leading European research university, it offers a wide variety of academic programs in Dutch and English, nurtured by high quality interdisciplinary research, both at the university and at its internationally acclaimed university hospitals. More than 6,000 researchers from over 120 countries participate in curiosity-driven and strategic frontier research, as well as targeted and demand-driven research. The university’s interaction and co-operation with external partners is very intense.
Internally, the science, engineering, and technology research at the K.U.Leuven is organized in thematic research centers. The centers unite and distribute knowledge and expertise in focus areas of research and cut across the traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the area of ICT, it is the Leuven Centre on Information and Communication Technology (LICT - www.kuleuven.be/LICT) that bundles the ICT expertise at the K.U.Leuven and its associated partners. The mission of the center focuses on “coordinating and promoting top-level research on the design and application of ICT systems, both hardware and software, in support of industry and society.” This includes coordinating and conducting basic and applied research in the SW and HW aspects of ICT and its applications, serving as a center of excellence for the industry and the society, providing state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for ICT research, contributing to education programs in ICT and stimulating information exchange in ICT.
The LICT center currently represents about 50 professors and more than 350 researchers from multiple research groups and is organized around seven research lines: wireless communication systems, mixed-signal interface systems, embedded systems and software, distributed software, ICT security, human-machine interaction, and knowledge technologies.
“Being one of the largest comprehensive universities in Europe, K.U.Leuven carries out state of the art research that addresses many societal problems. Having built up a large expertise in telecommunications, from efficient algorithms and media processing to cryptography and high-performance integrated circuit implementations, the K.U.Leuven ICT centre is currently focusing on innovative techniques to cut back the power consumption of these systems with orders of magnitude. As this fits nicely the objectives of the GreenTouch initiative, becoming a member was only a logical next step. The available K.U.Leuven expertise and the cooperation with the other partners will undoubtedly benefit the research to achieve the challenging objectives set by GreenTouch.”
-Professor Dr. Ir. Georges Gielen, Chairman, K.U.Leuven Centre on Information and Communication Technology
