Julien Ryckaert
Program Director
IMEC


Julien Ryckaert received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium, in 2000 and the PhD degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2007. Before his Phd he had joined IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) as a mixed-signal designer in 2000 specializing in RF transceivers, ultra-low power circuit techniques and analog-to-digital converters. In 2010 he joined the process technology division in charge of design enablement for 3DIC technology. Since 2013, he is in charge of imec’s Design-Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) platform for advanced CMOS technology nodes. He is now Program Director for the design enablement of the 3nm and 2nm technology nodes and the potential 3D hybrid scaling extensions of CMOS.