Roeland Huys
Director Chip Development
50 years old
Driving License
Herent Belgium
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Roeland's main strengths is innovation by creative solutions, with a strong background in
semiconductor engineering, design, R&D and business development.
• System solutions: analysis and development of custom system and chip
architectures, technical proposal writing
• ASIC development: analog and digital VLSI design
• Nanotechnology: development of custom backend process technology including
microfluidics, electrodes, biosensors
• Life Science Technologies: experience in various chip technologies related to
solutions for healthcare and biotech
• System Development and testing: developing custom system solutions involving
ASICs, FPGA, PCB, embedded software, and testing in the lab.
• Data analysis, DSP and modeling: experience with Matlab, Python, analysis of
experimental data and DSP
• Business development: experience in international sales, G2M generation and
technical and business proposal writing and contract and IP negotiations
• Management: experienced in project management and team lead of complex R&D
projects
• Loves to work in multidisciplinary teams
semiconductor engineering, design, R&D and business development.
• System solutions: analysis and development of custom system and chip
architectures, technical proposal writing
• ASIC development: analog and digital VLSI design
• Nanotechnology: development of custom backend process technology including
microfluidics, electrodes, biosensors
• Life Science Technologies: experience in various chip technologies related to
solutions for healthcare and biotech
• System Development and testing: developing custom system solutions involving
ASICs, FPGA, PCB, embedded software, and testing in the lab.
• Data analysis, DSP and modeling: experience with Matlab, Python, analysis of
experimental data and DSP
• Business development: experience in international sales, G2M generation and
technical and business proposal writing and contract and IP negotiations
• Management: experienced in project management and team lead of complex R&D
projects
• Loves to work in multidisciplinary teams
Director Chip Development
miDiagnostics
Since 2019
- miDiagnostics is a spinoff company from imec founded in 2015 and develops microfluidic chip solutions for personalized diagnostics.
- Responsibilities
- Interaction with foundry suppliers for R&D and transfer of processes for high volume production
- Leading and hiring of a team of scientists, process engineers and chemists esponsible for development and testing of microfluidic chips
- Achievements
- Proposed design changes to improve critical technical issues on the fabrication based on measurement results
- Enhanced the cycle time of the development process and applied cost saving measures
- Implemented a new chemical vapor deposition tool for process development supplier negotiations, transport and hookup in our clean-room
- Implemented a team collaboration platform for planning
- Started a project on the development for high-throughput test system automation with wafer-scale microfluidic testing and computer vision
Director Business Development
AnSem, a Cyient company
2018
to 2019
- AnSem is an analog and mixed signal ASIC design and supply company, and started as a spinoff of KU.Leuven and imec in 1998.
- Cyient is a global solutions provider with HQ in India, and is focused on engineering manufacturing, data analytics, networks & operations. Cyient acquired AnSem in May 2018.
- Responsibilities
- Technical ideation with the customer, close interaction with the technical team and developing detailed proposals with technical solutions from early concept to full supply chain management.
- Leading the AnSem Healthcare business for custom turnkey ASIC solutions and chip supply, funded R&D projects, developing G2M and Marcom strategy
- Integration of AnSem Medical offering with the Cyient global MT&H (Medical Technologies and Health) business unit, developing new joint value propositions working with a market intel team in Hyderabad, India.
- Achievements
- Completed several technical feasibility projects resulting in new product architectures
- Delivered several technical proposals for chip design and full chip industrialization and supply chain management
- Developed over 100 new customer leads in the healthcare space
Product Marketing / Business Development Manager Life Science
IMEC
2013
to 2017
Full-time
Heverlee
Belgium
- Belgium is a world-leading research institute in nanoelectronics leveraging scientific knowledge with the innovative power of our global partnerships in ICT, healthcare and energy.
- Responsibilities: growing the Life Science Business by close collaboration with the R&D leadership, discovering potential market opportunities, developing go-to-market strategies, coordination with team leaders, coordination with international sales team, developing customer interactions, technical ideation, proposal development, contract egotiation, supporting in the technical strategy of the business line, and Marcom.
- Collaboration with people across the organization with account managers in (Europe, Japan, China, Taiwan, US) technical teams across all business units, legal and IP, MARCOM.
- Achievements
- Contributed in growing the business line from 4M€ (end of 2012) to 25.5M€ (end of 2016)
- Interaction with over 150 different companies worldwide.
- Setting up a major projects with top industry players in Genomics space on photonics and nanotechnology chip projects
- Setting up wafer volume production at imec for photonics chip for genomics space and transfer to high-volume supply chain in Asia.
- Improvement of operational processes and development of a database
Project Manager R&D Life Science Technologies
IMEC
2009
to 2013
- Responsibilities: project management of various R&D projects with teams from 5 to 20 people, on various topics in Life Sciences Technologies such as chips for electrophysiology ecording, novel imaging technologies for stem cells, biosensor technologies for cytokine detection.
- Collaborations with companies and universities in Europe, US, Japan, Israel. Broad collaboration with many people in different levels of the organization.
- Achievements management of a large stem cell technologies program including digital holographic imaging and optical biosensors development of demonstrator systems and filed patents on the core technologies development of a mixed-signal CMOS chip with custom backend processing in the imec clean-room for interaction with brain cells. Development of a system for use in the wet lab
Researcher Wireless Systems
IMEC
1999
to 2004
- Responsibilities: development of electronic systems for demonstrating new wireless communication chips. R&D on computing algorithms for wireless MIMO and OFDM ansceivers and synchronization algorithms.
- Achievements: Contributed to development of the first wireless chip technologies and wireless test system at imec.
Researcher Life Science Technologies
imec
2004
to 2011
- Responsibilities: scientific research, networking with the academic community conference presentations, publishing in scientific journals, following medical courses, eaching at the university. Technical responsibilities included physics simulations, analog and digital chip design, electronics system design and testing in the bio-labs with close collaboration with researcher with a biomedical background.
- Achievements: developed the first bio-electronic systems in new research group at IMEC including chip design and system development and testing in bio-labs. (Co)-author on 32 scientific publications and (co)-inventor of 6 patent families.
Master in Engineering Burgerlijk Elektrotechnisch Ingenieur - Electrical Engineering, ICT
K.U.Leuven
October 2001
to June 2003
Master in Industrial Engineering - Industriëel Ingenieur
Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Kortrijk
November 1995
to November 1999
