Dirk Stroobandt was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1972. He graduated in 1994 as electrotechnical engineer at Ghent University. In May 1998, he obtained the Ph.D. degree in electrotechnical engineering from the same university. From October 1994 to September 1998, Dirk Stroobandt was research assistant and from October 1998 to September 2002, he was post-doctoral fellow with the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium) (F.W.O.). Since October 2002, he is Professor at Ghent University (promotion to Senior Lecturer in 2006, to Full Professor in 2014 and to senior full professor in 2020), affiliated with the Department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS), Computer Systems Lab (CSL).
He currently leads the research group HES (Hardware and Embedded Systems) of about 5 to 10 people with interests in semi-automatic hardware design methodologies and tools, run-time FPGA reconfiguration, and reconfigurable multiprocessor networks.
He visited the lab of Prof. Fadi J. Kurdahi at the University of California at Irvine as a researcher from April to July 1997. From July 1999 to June 2000, he visited the group of Prof. Andrew B. Kahng at the Computer Science Department of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) as a post-doctoral researcher.
Awards & Memberships
Dirk Stroobandt is a member of IEEE, ACM, AIG (Alumni UGent), and ie-net (Royal Flemish Engineering Association). He is the inaugural winner of the ACM/SIGDA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award in Design Automation, June 1999. He also received the “Scientific prize Alcatel Bell” in 2002.
Conference Organization
- General chair of FPL 2026 and FPL 2017
- Program Chair of IWLS 2015, FPL 2025
- General Chair of IWLS 2014
- Special Session Chair of IWLS 2013
- General Chair of SLIP 2000
- Co-organizer and founder of SLIP (International Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction) 1999
Editorial Service
- Associate editor for ACM TRETS
- Associate editor for ACM TODAES
- Guest editor of two special issues of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems on System-Level Interconnect Prediction
- Guest editor of a special issue on SLIP for Integration, the VLSI Journal
- Lead editor of a special issue of the International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
- Reviewer for numerous conferences and journals
Administrative & Industry Roles
- Representative of Ghent University in Flander’s Semiconductors
- Chair of the Board of DSP Valley (2016-2022)
- Member of the Board of DSP Valley
- Chair of the educational committee for the electrical engineering courses at Ghent University (2014-2024)