Erik Mannes

Erik Mannens is Director @ imec IDLab & Professor @ UAntwerp (Sustainable AI) and @ Ghent University (Semantic Intelligence).

Being 50+, from now on he tends to only take on new projects who will have a positive & lasting impact on Society and "Spaceship Earth" as a whole! #SustainableDevelopmentGoals ... As such, he took on the Operational Lead of SOLID Lab Flanders for half a year in 2022 and now is heading imec IDLab where they’re working towards Sustainable AI.

He now heads a Data Science team of +125 Wireless Communication & AI Experts that research all aspects of the Sustainability of AI.

Since 2017, he has a lasting collaboration with MIT (Prof. dr. Sir. Tim Berners Lee) where they jointly worked on the standardisation (W3C) of the SOLID eco-system. On mapping the (meta)data of heterogeneous Linked Open Sets he also has been collaborating with USC’s Prof. dr. Craig Knoblock.