Jan M. Van Campenhout Prof. Van Campenhout is a (part time) member of the Department of the Electronics and Information Systems Department (ELIS) of the Faculty of Engineering, and is a former member of the board of Directors of Ghent University . He has taught courses in digital design, and his former interests include the study and implementation of various forms of parallelism in information processing systems, focused upon the modelling and design of short-range parallel optical interconnects from a systems perspective. More recent research interests have included the use of photonic technology as an implementation substrate for the reservoir computing paradigm and the computer aided support of the architectural design process and the ensuing design exploration.

Jan M. Van Campenhout was born in Vilvoorde, Belgium, on August 9, 1949. He received a Degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the University of Gent, in 1972; and the MSEE and PhD Degrees from Stanford University, in 1975 and 1978, respectively. He is a Member of Sigma Xi, K.VIV., and IEEE.

Activities in optoelectronic interconnect included the study of architectural issues of short-range optical interconnect in electronic systems, and the development of demonstrator systems such as OIIC's opto-electronic system demonstrator and the IO project demonstrator.

As of 2007 he took the project lead of the OASIS project at Ghent University, aimed at the integrated support of the university's course offering and student administration. Although he has retired on October 1, 2014, he is still active as a part time internal consultant for further developments in this area.

Address:

Prof. em. dr. ir. Jan Van Campenhout
Universiteit Gent, ELIS Department
Technologiepark-Zijnaarde 15, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
Phone: +32 9 264.33.73
e-mail: Jan.VanCampenhout@ugent.be