Research Unit

Internet Technology and Data Science Lab

Acronym
IDLab
Duration
01 January 2017 → Ongoing
Group leader
Other information
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Analysis of next-generation sequence data
    • Bioinformatics data integration and network biology
    • Bioinformatics of disease
    • Computational biomodelling and machine learning
    • Computational evolutionary biology, comparative genomics and population genomics
    • Computational transcriptomics and epigenomics
    • Ontologies, data curation and text mining
    • Single-cell data analysis
    • Computational biomodelling and machine learning
    • Computational evolutionary biology, comparative genomics and population genomics
    • Computational transcriptomics and epigenomics
    • Development of bioinformatics software, tools and databases
    • Ontologies, data curation and text mining
    • Single-cell data analysis
  • Engineering and technology
    • Wireless communication and positioning systems
    • Antennas and propagation
    • Broadband and modern technologies
    • Computer communication networks
    • Data communications
    • Microwave and millimeter wave technology
    • Optical fibre communications
    • Optical networks and systems
    • Satellite communications
    • Telecommunication and remote sensing
    • Video communications
    • Wireless communications
    • Automation and control systems
    • Electromagnetism and antenna technology
    • Photonics, light and lighting
    • Robotics and automatic control
    • Control systems, robotics and automation not elsewhere classified
    • Analogue, RF and mixed signal integrated circuits
    • Digital integrated circuits
    • Electronic circuit and system reliability
    • Embedded systems
    • Microwaves, millimeter waves and THz components and circuits and systems
    • Semiconductor devices, nanoelectronics and technology
    • Neuromorphic computing
    • Signal processing
    • Audio and speech processing
    • Biomedical image processing
    • Computer vision
    • Image and language processing
    • Interactive and intelligent systems
    • Pattern recognition and neural networks
    • Bio-informatics
    • High performance computing
    • Mathematical software
    • Modelling and simulation
    • Numerical computation
    • Analogue and digital signal processing
    • Audio and speech computing
    • Data visualisation and imaging
Description
- IDLab focuses its research on internet technologies and data science. We develop beyond state-of-the-art technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence for robotics and IoT (Internet of Things), machine learning and data mining, semantic intelligence, cloud and big data infrastructures, fixed and wireless networking, electromagnetics, RF and high-speed circuits and systems. - IDLab is active in multiple application areas: manufacturing, smart buildings and cities, health and wellbeing, media, mobility and logistics, energy, 5G communications, bioinformatics and datacenter technologies. - IDLab collaborates with many universities and research centres worldwide and jointly develops advanced technologies with industry (R&D centers from international companies, Flanders’ top innovating large companies and SMEs, as well as numerous ambitious startups). - IDLab is a research group in the Department of Information Technology (INTEC) and the Department Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (FEA). IDLab is a department in imec. - IDLab counts about 300 members with 45 professors and over 50 post docs. 10 spin-off companies were established. - There is also part of IDLab active in the University of Antwerp (not included in this SVO).