Ingrid Verbauwhede
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Ingrid Verbauwhede is a professor at the COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography) Research Group of the Electrical Engineering Department, KU Leuven, where she leads the embedded systems team. She is a pioneer in the field of secure embedded circuits and systems, with several awards recognising her contributions to the field.[1] She is member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts since 2011.[2] She is a fellow of IEEE.
Verbauwhede received her PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium, and Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Leuven, in 1991.[3] Her PhD dissertation was on "VLSI design methodologies for application-specific cryptographic and algebraic systems".[4]
Career
Verbauwhede received a NATO post-doctoral fellowship to work at the Electronics Research Lab of the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, United States).[5]
Since 2003, she is part of the COSIC and iMinds research groups in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at KU-Leuven, Belgium.[1][6] She was also an associate professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles.[3]
In 2025, she co-founded Belfort Labs, a spin-off of KU Leuven specialized in the acceleration of Homomorphic Encryption.