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Organisation

Leuven Centre on Information and Communication Technology

Research Unit

Lifecycle:1 Dec 2008 →  Today
Organisation profile:

The LICT Center bundles the complementary expertise of (electronic) engineers, computer scientists, sociologists and law experts all active in the area of ICT, being it hardware, software, or related legal and social aspects.

The research activities of the center can be classified in 8 research lines.

- Analog, Mixed-Signal & RF building blocks

- Circuits & Systems for Sensing & Communications

- Embedded Hardware and Software

- Distributed Software

- ICT Security & Safety

- Multimedia Processing

- Human-Computer Interaction

- Data & Knowledge Science.

The different research lines come together in cross-technology themes like “Green ICT”, “Big Data” and “Internet-of-Things” and find their application in domains like "Health, Sports and Ambient Assisted Living", “Smart Environments (Buildings, Cities, Industry, ...)”, “Media & Content”, “Transport, Logistics & Automotive”, "Learning" and "Agriculture & Food".

Keywords:Communication Technology, Information
Disciplines:Applied mathematics in specific fields, Computer architecture and networks, Distributed computing, Information sciences, Information systems, Programming languages, Scientific computing, Theoretical computer science, Visual computing, Other information and computing sciences, Modelling, Biological system engineering, Signal processing, Nanotechnology, Design theories and methods, Communications, Communications technology