Team

Philippe Faes, CEO

Philippe Faes, born 1978 in Lier, Belgium, has been technology driven since childhood. At age 18, he spent a year in Portland Oregon. During this year, he received the highest score of all of Madison High School's seniors on the national SAT test, and received the American Chemical Society's best student of the year award. Upon his return to Belgium, he started engineering studies at Ghent University, where he graduated in 2003. From 2003 to 2007, he conducted his doctoral research at the department of electronics and information systems of the same university. Philippe has been a licensed HAM operator since he was 17, and has been practicing aikidō for over a decade.

Hendrik Eeckhaut, CTO

Hendrik Eeckhaut, born 1978 in Ghent, Belgium, started his engineering studies in 1996 at Ghent University and graduated in 2001 in Computer Science. Since then he has been working towards a Ph.D. degree at the PARIS (Parallel Information Systems) group of the ELIS (Electronics and Information Systems) department. At first he performed research on implementing digital neural networks on digital hardware. Later his research shifted to the investigation of the feasibility and benefits of scalable hardware for scalable multimedia environments. During his Ph.D. he implemented a complete, real-time, wavelet-based, scalable video decoder on an FPGA.

Jan Decaluwe, business development

Jan Decaluwe is entrepreneur and expert in hardware design. In 1991 he co-founded Easics, a company that pioneered VHDL-based hardware design, and continues to be a competence center in digital hardware design. Jan became an independent consultant in 2002 and still provides hardware design services to Easics. He is co-founder of Mephisto Design Automation, an EDA company that develops analog hardware automation tools.
Jan is also the initiator and main developer of MyHDL, a Python-based hardware description language.