Our Team

The Hardware and Embedded Systems (HES) Group is part of the Computer Systems Lab (CSL) at the ELIS Department, Ghent University. Our team includes faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and master’s students working on electronic design automation, FPGA architectures, and embedded systems.

Faculty

Dirk Stroobandt Senior Full Professor, Ghent University

Staff

Romeo Martens FC3 Coordinator

PhD Students

Markus Rein PhD Student

Nour El I Boukortt PhD Student

Raveena Raikar PhD Student

Ruiqi Chen PhD Student Joint PhD - UGent & VUB

Xiaoke Wang PhD Student

Alumni

PhD Graduates

• Yun Zhou (2022)
• Dries Vercruyce (2020)
• Bruno Tiago da Silva Gomes (2019)
• Alexandra Kourfali (2019)
• Poona Bahrebar (2017)
• Amit Kulkarni (2017)
• Elias Vansteenkiste (2016)
• Karel Heyse (2015)
• Brahim Al Farisi (2015)
• Fatma Abouelella (2014)
• Tom Davidson (2014)
• Karel Bruneel (2011)
• Eric Aislan Antonelo (2011)
• Peter Bertels (2010)
• Michiel D’Haene (2010)
• David Verstraeten (2009)
• Philippe Faes (2008)
• Harald Devos (2008)
• Hendrik Eeckhaut (2008)
• Wim Heirman (2008)
• Peter Verplaetse (2003)
• Joni Dambre (2003)

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Mark Christiaens (now at Sigasi)

Former PhD Students

• Tom Degryse
• Berg Severens
• Vijaykumar Guddad
• Jan De Ceuster

Research Staff & Collaborators

• Wim Meeus (now at Sigasi)
• Michiel De Wilde
• Craig Moore
• Pieter Buteneers

Visiting Researchers

• Yana Krasteva
• Julian Caba Jimenez
• Mazher Iqbal