Prof. Jean-Pierre Raskin (Université catholique de Louvain)
Short bio
Jean-Pierre Raskin received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied sciences from Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. In 1998, he joined the EECS Department of The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, for a post-doc of two years. In 2000, he joined the Microwave Laboratory of UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, as Associate Professor, and he has been a Full Professor since 2007. His research interests are the modeling, wideband characterization and fabrication of advanced SOI MOSFETs as well as micro and nanofabrication of MEMS / NEMS sensors and actuators, including the extraction of intrinsic material properties at nanometer scale. He has been IEEE Fellow since 2014. He received the Médaille BLONDEL 2015, the SOI Consortium Award 2016, the European SEMI Award 2017, the Médaille AMPERE 2019, the Georges Vanderlinden Prize 2021 and the IET Achievement Medal in Electronics 2022, in recognition in his vision and pioneering work for RF SOI. He has been managing a Chair in eco-innovation at CEA-Leti since January 2024.
Keynote : Information Communication Technology for the best and the worst
Electronics is increasingly introduced in our society and ICT contributes extensively to this trend. Although this could enable positive effects both on our society and our environment through optimization and monitoring, the massive deployment of ICT comes together with an undeniable environmental burden which is often overlooked.
In the talk, we will begin by questioning the vision of progress shared by our societies. We will lift the veil on the invisibles of the digital world. It shows that the exponential trends such as Moore’s law or Cooper’s law will very unlikely lead to an absolute decrease of greenhouse gas emission and a reduction of our appetite for a wide variety of minerals if sobriety is not considered together with efficiency improvements.
Faced with the societal challenges of today and tomorrow, teaching and disciplinary research must reinvent themselves. Based on the assessed impacts of ICT, we will question the merits of certain technological choices made in the name of the transition. A holistic, transdisciplinary and pragmatic approach must be put in place in order to think, design and innovate within the constraints of our ecosystem limits. Concrete examples of current research will be shared, such as a critical look at the deployment of connected objects, the eco-design of sensors, a reflection on the pursuit of Moore’s law and its environmental consequences, and the strategies to minimize e-waste.