Koen Bertels

Professor Koen Bertels currently serves as Professor of Quantum Computer Engineering at the University of Ghent and visiting professor at KAIST, following his distinguished tenure at TU Delft's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. As the head of the Quantum Computer Architectures Lab, he focuses on quantum computing system design and architecture, collaborating with experimental physicists to develop prototype quantum processors. His entrepreneurial spirit led him to found QBee.eu, a quantum startup developing full-stack quantum accelerator solutions, and BlueBee, a cloud service for genome sequencing that secured €10 million in venture capital. His research portfolio spans quantum computing, multi-core architectures, and electronic system level design, with significant contributions to the Delft Workbench project for heterogeneous multicore platforms. His work has garnered substantial recognition in the field, particularly in areas such as quantum circuit design, neural network-based decoders for surface codes, and quantum computer simulation platforms. As a pioneer in quantum computing education and research, he continues to advance the development of scalable quantum micro- and system architectures while exploring new frontiers in DNA data storage and quantum acceleration technologies.