Erik Mannens is Proffessor at Ghent University – IDLab since 2005 and Research Valorisation Director at imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies.

He received his PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering (2011) at UGent, his Master’s degree in Computer Science (1995) at K.U. Leuven, and his Master’s degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering (1992) at KAHO Ghent.

He currently heads the Data Science team of more than 50 semantic technologies & artificial intelligence researchers.