Rudy Lauwereins is vice president at imec responsible for the digital and user-centric solutions unit, which focuses on security, connectivity, image processing, sensor fusion, machine learning, data analytics and on making technology society proof. He is also director of the imec.academy, coordinating external and internal trainings. He is a part-time Full Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and has authored and co-authored more than 400  publications. He is a fellow of the IEEE.