Yves Deville is a professor at the UCL Louvain School of Engineering. He is a member of the Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM). His teaching and research fields are information technology, artificial intelligence and optimisation.
Since September 2014, Prof. Deville has served as rectoral adviser for the digital university, helping define and establish UCL’s digital strategy. He chairs the MOOCs Steering Committee and the UCL Information System Authority.
Holder of a UCL master’s degree in electrical engineering (1981) and a UCL doctorate in applied sciences (1987), Jean-Didier Legat created, in 1987, with Pierre De Muelenaere, I.R.I.S., a spin-off of the UCL Microelectronics Laboratory, which specialises in optical character recognition. In 1990, he returned to UCL as a professor in what was then called the Department of Electricity. His current research fields are low-power digital integrated circuits, processor architecture and reconfigurable systems.
Jean-Didier Legat a été Doyen de l’École Polytechnique de Louvain de 2003 à 2008. Il a été un des initiateurs du projet CPME (formation interdisciplinaire en création d’entreprises) et est Président de son Comité scientifique depuis 2004. Il est actuellement Conseiller du Recteur de l’UCL pour la valorisation et Président de l’Institut de recherche ICTEAM (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics).
Tania Van Hemelryck is an FNRS (Belgian Fund for Scientific Research) senior research associate and professor of medieval literature at the Institute of Civilisations, Arts and Letters and the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters. She was a visiting scholar at McGill University (Montreal), visiting researcher at the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (Paris) and visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
In addition to her teaching and research, she has served in several posts at UCL, including vice-dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters from 2007 to 2012. As a result, she acquired thorough knowledge of the institution and extensive experience in managing academic and administrative affairs. Her community service missions have raised awareness of issues of professional equality, well-being at work and respect for individuals.
As part of her role as rectoral adviser for gender policy, she directs gender policy in personnel management and promotes activities addressing gender in teaching, research and community service, all in collaboration with Vice-Rector for Personnel Policy Évelyne Léonard and with the support of the UCL Gender Contact Édithe Antoine.
Marc Verdussen is a professor at UCL, where he is connected to the Centre for Research on the State and Constitution (CRECO). He teaches and conducts research on Belgian and comparative constitutional law, and in the field of constitutional justice. He chairs the Research Ethics Committee.
He was an assistant professor at the Université de Liège, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting professor at the University of Ottawa, the University of Szeged, the Université d'Aix-Marseille and the Université de Lille. He received an honorary doctorate from the Université d'Aix-Marseille.
He is a subeditor for the Revue belge de droit constitutionnel and a member of the research committees of several Belgian and foreign journals.
He is an expert consultant, particularly for public institutions (parliaments, ministries, administrations) and collaborates with the media.
An attorney of the Brussels Bar, he is a legal counsellor at the Altea law firm, where he deals mainly with constitutional law, primarily before the Constitutional Court.
Serge Lion has a bachelor’s degree in economics from UCL and is a chartered accountant. He consulted as an external auditor in different sectors before consulting as an internal auditor in several European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, etc.). He joined UCL in 2008 as director of UCL’s Internal Audit Department.
In carrying out his duties, he has developed advanced knowledge of many of the institution’s administrative processes.
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