Bart De Moor#
| Membership Number: | 6638 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.bartdemoor.be |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1154-5028 |
| Twitter: | @DeMoorBart |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Full Professor, Dept. Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium
- 2019 - present chairman of Health House (Health Tech Experience Center), the Alamire Foundation (Polyphonic Music), Athumi (Flanders Data Utility Company)
- 2018-2022 expert member of ESGAB (European Statistical Governance Advisory Board) nominated by the European Council
- 1995 - present Member the Board of VIB (Biotech Institute), UCSIA, Ignatius-in-Beweging, TML, Officenter, KU Leuven
- 2010 - 2015 Scientific Director Department Medical IT, Strategic Research Center iMinds, Flanders
- 2009 - 2013 Vice-rector International Policy, KU Leuven
- 2007 - 2009 Head Socio-Economical Cabinet, Minister-President Flanders Region (Y. Leterme) and 1994-1999: Main Science Advisor, Minister-President Flanders Region (L. Van den Brande)
- 1991 - 1992 Head of Cabinet, Federal Minister of Science Policy (W. Demeester), Brussels
- 1990 - 1999 Senior Research Associate, Scientific Research Foundation (FWO), Flanders
- 1988 - 1990 Research Associate at Stanford University in the depts. Electrical Engineering (Thomas Kailath) and Computer Science (Gene Golub)
Fields of Scholarship
- Industry 4.0
- Advanced Control Theory
- Medical decision support systems (DSS)
- Dynamical system theory and Identification, data science, machine learning
- Numerical (multi-) linear algebra and algebraic geometry
- Mathematical engineering algorithms and software with broad applicability
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Leslie Fox Prize
- 1992 Laureate of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences
- 1994 bi-annual Siemens Award
- Since 2004 Fellow of IEEE
- Since 2000 Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts
- Since 2022 Fellow IFAC for “contributions to numerical multi-linear algebra, systems theory and systems identification, with applications in process control and bioinformatics”
- Since 2020 Commander in the Order of King Leopold I, granted by King Filip of Belgium
- 2020 - 2025 ERC Advanced Grant ‘Back to the roots’
- 2018 - now Co-holder KU Leuven Chair ‘Health Care Systems Quality and Accessibility’, endowed by Health Insurance Organisation CM
- Since 2017 Fellow SIAM for ‘Contributions to numerical multilinear algebra’
- 2010 Excellence Award of the Flanders Research Foundation, by King Albert II of Belgium
