Tom Dhaene is Professor in Distributed Scientific Computing within the department of information technology (INTEC-IBCN) of the faculty of Engineering at Ghent University.
In 1993, after his Ph.D. on electromagnetic modeling at INTEC, Ghent University, he joined the EDA startup company Aphabit, later acquired by Hewlett-Packard, and now part of Agilent Technologies. In 2000, he went back to academia.
His current research interests include machine learning, surrogate modeling, bioinformatics and distributed computing. He has published over 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, and he is the holder of 5 U.S. patents.
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