Paul De Bra studied Mathematics (with a focus on Computer Science) at the University of Antwerp and graduated in 1981. He also obtained a teaching degree in 1981, and in 1987 a PhD in (Computer) Science, also in Antwerp. His research field was Databases, with a thesis on Horizontal Decompositions in the Relational Database Model. For most of 1988 and 1989 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the Information Systems Principles department. After that he became first associate and later (1996) full professor at the TU/e, in the field of Databases. He is best known for his research on personalization in web-based systems and on technology-enhanced learning. He published around 200 scientific papers and 3 books. For many years he was board member (and for 8 years also president) of User Modeling Inc., a non-profit organization for User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Since his retirement Paul De Bra has turned his attention to music, and in particular to the accordion. For about 30 years he was conductor of the accordion ensemble Avanti in Antwerp (until 2014). He makes many arrangements for accordion ensembles, which are freely available and played all over the world. He plays the bass accordion in ensembles and orchestras, and is a trained accordion repairer (who does voluntary repair work, only for friends).

Henk Corporaal is Professor in Embedded System Architectures at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands. He has gained a BSc and MSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Groningen, and a PhD (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering, in the area of Computer Architecture, from Delft University of Technology. His research is on low power multi-processor, heterogenous processing architectures, their programmability, and the predictable design of soft- and hard real-time systems. This includes research and design of embedded system architectures, like CGRAs, SIMD, VLIW and GPUs, on accelerators, the exploitation of all kinds of parallelism, fault-tolerance, approximate computing, energy-efficient architectures for machine and deep learning, optimizations and mapping of deep learning networks, and the (semi-)automated mapping of applications to these architectures. Corporaal has co-authored over 600 journal and conference papers. He supervised more than 50 PhD and 200 Master thesis students at KULeuven, TUDelft and TUEindhoven. Furthermore, he invented a new class of VLIW architectures, the Transport Triggered Architectures, which is used in several commercial products, and by many research groups. He participated in more than 50 projects. Among them he initiated and led the Dutch NWO perspectief program on Efficient Deep Learning (efficientdeeplearning.nl); in this program many research institutes and over 30 companies participated. He also is the PI of the EU project CONVOLVE (convolve.eu) on seamless design of smart edge processors, with 19 partners. For many years Corporaal was chair of the exam board of Electrical Engineering, vice-chair of the exam board of Embedded Systems, and Scientific Director of DTI, the Design Technology Institute from TUE and NUS (Singapore). For more details see http://corporaal.org and linkedin .

Werktuigbouwkunde (Ontwerp en constructie; Methodisch Ontwerpen) gestudeerd aan de Technische Universiteit Twente. Sinds 1983 aan het werk bij Kropman Installatiechniek. Gastdocent aan de faculteit Bouwkunde van de Technische Universiteit Delft (2000-2003). Van 2001 tot 2024 hoogleraar Installatietechnologie aan de Faculteit Bouwkunde TU/e. Mijn onderzoek ging over het integraal ontwerpen voor klimatisering en ventilatie in gebouwen. Specifiek gezonde ventilatie in kinderdagverblijven & scholen, intelligente gebouwen en flexibele smart grid integratie van duurzame energie. Bestuurslid en voorzitter geweest van de afdeling Elektrotechniek van de TVVL (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Installatietechniek in de Gebouwde Omgeving). Lid van de raad van begeleiding van ISSO (Nederlandse vereniging voor het stimuleren van onderzoek naar installatietechniek in Nederland). De B.J. Max-prijs in 1993 ontvangen en in 2009 de lifetime achievement award. In 2014 de REHVA Professional Science Award van de European Federation for Heating-, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning ontvangen.  Hobbies keramiek van Picasso en Bugatti: de uitdaging van vormgeving en Techniek.

Alexander Maria Christiaan Lemmens, born in 1955 in Heerlen, received a MSc degree in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). From 1987 to 1992 he worked at the University of Zambia as manager of the Technology Development and Advisory Unit (TDAU). In 1992 he started to teach Technology Assessment at TU/e. From 1996 to 2011 he was director of the Eindhoven Energy Institute and later involved in the KIC InnoEnergy. In the period 2002 to 2011 he was educational director for several BSc and MSc programs in different departments. In June 2011 he was appointed dean of the TU/e Bachelor College. In 2013 he was appointed full professor holding a chair on Academic Science and Engineering Education. He retired from TU/e in july 2021.

Link naar de Wikipedia-pagina van Prof. dr. L.J.F. Broer: Bert Broer - Wikipedia

P.J. (Piet) Lemstra (Godlinze (Groningen), 26 oktober 1946), bijnaam PLEM, is een Nederlands hoogleraar scheikunde. Prof. dr. Lemstra promoveerde aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in 1975. Vervolgens was hij post-doctoraal fellow aan de Universiteit van Bristol (UK) onder professor Andrew Keller. Van 1976 tot 1985 werkte hij bij DSM Research waar hij samen met Paul Smith de supersterke vezel Dyneema heeft ontwikkeld. In 1985 werd Lemstra hoogleraar aan de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Van 1990 tot 1995 was hij voor de eerste maal decaan van de faculteit Scheikundige Technologie. Van 1994-1997 was Lemstra directeur van de onderzoeksschool Polymeren (PTN) en in 1997 richtte hij samen met professor het (DPI) op, waar hij tot 2004 werkte als wetenschappelijk directeur. In 2004 richtte hij met de op ten behoeve van de samenwerking met het MKB. In februari 2008 werd Lemstra (tot en met maart 2011) wederom decaan. Op 30 september 2011 hield hij -na ruim een kwart eeuw aan de TU/e-zijn afscheidscollege. Daarna ging hij aan de slag in China. Zie ook: Piet Lemstra - Wikipedia About - Plempolco B.V.

Willem van Haeringen werd in 1933 geboren in Bergen op Zoom. Hij promoveerde in Utrecht in 1960 op een onderwerp uit de Kwantumelectrodynamica ( Kwantumelektrodynamica - Wikipedia ) Link naar de thesis: 19da02a4aba00613317bfe5ca71ce371 (inspirehep.net) . Zijn promotor was de befaamde hoogleraar L. Ch. P. van Hove; zie ook de onderstaande links. Carrière: Junior scientist, U. Utrecht, 1957-1963; researcher, Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken, Eindhoven, 1963-1973; group leader, Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken, Eindhoven, 1973-1982; extraordinary professor physics, Delft Technology U., 1973-1982; professor theoretical physics, Eindhoven Technology U., since 1982. Verdiensten Willem Van Haeringen is door Marquis Who's Who vermeld als een opmerkelijke natuurkundedocent. Hij was tevens eerste luitenant bij de Nederlandse luchtmacht, van 1960-1962. Willem van Haeringen was werkzaam bij de Faculteit Technische Natuurkunde van de TU/e. Hij heeft 65 publicaties op zijn naam staan. Hier nog enkele interessante links: > https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=98076 Of the five students, Professor Martinus Veltman became a Physics Nobel Laureate (together with Gerard 't Hooft) in 1999: > https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1999/veltman/biographical/ Some, including Professor van Haeringen, are of the opinion that Professor van Hove should have received Nobel Prize in Physics, in particular for his ground-breaking contribution to the theory of Renormalization Group and Critical Phenomena > https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1982/summary/ Professor van Hove was also one of the the earliest pioneers of applying topological techniques to problems in Physics: > https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2016/summary/

In 1980 I received my MSc degree in electrical engineering (TU-Delft) and in 1992 my PhD degree in computer science (TU-Eindhoven). Most of my R&D work has been in industry: at Philips Research for 26 years, and later at NXP Research, ST-Ericsson, and Ericsson. From 1996 to 2023 I have been a part-time full professor in M&CS, specialized in parallel programming. My research is mostly on various models of computation (including theory, execution models, tools, and applications), resulting in more than 160 publications and patents [acc. to Google Scholar]: Asynchronous computing [1986-1996]. Result: so-called handshake circuits (my PhD thesis), applied in, amongst others, billions of chips for contactless smart cards. Embedded vector computing [1996-2006]. Result: an embedded vector DSP, applied in many millions of multi-standard [2G/3G/4G] modem chips for smart phones. Embedded multi-core computing [2006-2016]. Result: various HW and SW components applied in modem chips. Dataflow computing [2016-ongoing]. Result: StaccatoLab [= dataflow programming + execution model, related tools] and application studies in radio astronomy. Neural computing [2019-ongoing]. Result: contributions to neural-network inference chips for embedded applications, as part of my consultancy work for Grai-Matter Labs. Quantum computing [2020-ongoing]. Result: …

Dr. Ir. Schuurmans (1946, PhD TU/Eindhoven groep prof. Broer in 1971).  1968-1991 fysicus NatLab en groepsleider experimentele en theoretische fysica . 1985-91 deeltijd hoogleraar vaste stof fysica TU/Delft. 1991-1994 hoofd van het vaste stof onderzoek in het Philips Laboratorium New York, USA. 1995-2000 directievoorzitter van het Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium en vicevoorzitter van Philips Research wereldwijd. Stimulator High Tech Campus van Eindhoven en oprichter Philips Research Shanghai, China. 2000-2 CEO Fabricage Technologie Philips en deeltijd hoogleraar Innovatie Management TU/e. 2002-2005 lid RvB Philips Health Care (nu Philips) verantwoordelijk voor Innovatie en Industrie. 2003 oprichter Philips Neusoft JV voor Medische Apparatuur in Shenyang China. 2005 oprichter en 2006-7 Dean Sino-Dutch Biomedical School of Information Engineering (BMIE) van de North Eastern University (NEU) van Shenyang, China. 2008 tot 2011 (mede)-oprichter en eerste bestuursvoorzitter van EIT, het thans grootste Europese Instituut voor Innovatie en Technologie. Tot voor kort (2022) actief in diverse Nederlandse en Internationale adviesraden voor universiteiten en overheden.