Dr Herwig Mannaert

Dr. Herwig Mannaert graduated as an electronics engineer in 1988 at the K.U.Leuven. He obtained his PhD at the K.U.Leuven in 1993, specializing in computer vision and object recognition. He became an associate professor at the University of Antwerp in 1993, where he has been teaching courses on information and telecommunication technology since then. In 2000, he co-founded Cast4All, a company that produces distributed software applications for the telecom sector, including digital movie distribution via satellite, and central management of facility equipment on optical fiber networks. He also wrote two books on signal processing and electronics. Currently, he is a Professor at the University of Antwerp, where he is Chairman of the Management Information Systems Department, an Executive Professor at the University of Antwerp Management School, and a Director of Cast4All. His main research interests include design patterns for evolvable software architectures, and e-learning technologies.