Mechanical & Electrotechnical Civil Engineer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 1973

Ph.D. Applied Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 1980

Data compression of still digital images and of video sequences

Visualization of Medical Image Data and Analysis and of Medical Image Data.

Algorithms for image and video processing, e.g. tracking applications, segmentation of various types of images, pattern recognition, graphical user interfaces including the interactive manipulation of images, image matching, edge detection, image enhancement and restoration

Image-processing, image-analysis : visual inspection, 3D-vision, medical images. Digital signal-processing : speech- processing. Micro-processor (system) development. Medical instrumentation. Sensor technology (ISFETS).

Information society Technologies programme 2002 Health Care

BIOMED II Evaluation Grant Applications for Training, Research on Biomedical Technology and Engineering

Evaluation BIOMED II

High Performance Computing and Networking (ESPRIT)

CRAFT-BIOMED II

ESPRIT Information Society Technologies - Humanitarian demining RTD projects

Information Society Technologies - Interactive environments for nurses and doctors

Panel Rapporteur Annual Project Review 2000- Esprit Humanitarian Demining Applications

IST - Applications relating to health, Cluster: Health care Professional

Unité INSERM -494, Quantitative Medical Imaging

Annual Project Review 1999 Esprit/IST, Humanitarian Demining Projects

Evaluation IST EDISCIM IST-1999-10100

Evaluation Proposal DIAMANT René Descatrtes Prize 2002

Professor in digital image processing and electronics, coordinator of research group IRIS (computer vision, image processing), academic coordinator Knowledge Innovation and Technology Transfer at VUB. From 2012 he is Vice rector international relations at VUB. From 1997 onwards, he became consultant professor at the North-Western Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China. Current research interest: Image and video compression, Medical imaging.

During 20 years Jan Cornelis is active in R&D-management: head of department of the department ETRO - Electronics and Informatics, initiator and first chairman of "BI3 NV" -incubation fund, and co-founder of ICAB NV - Incubation Centre of VUB. In 2001-2008 he was Vice rector for research at VUB. In 2009-2010, he was deputy head of cabinet in the Ministry of Science Policy and Innovation. He is now representing the Flemish Government in the Board of Directors of IMEC. He is board member of the Institute of Broad Band Technology IBBT. He has co-initiated the first interuniversity (UGent, VUB, UA) early seed fund Qbic in Flanders-Brussels, which started in June 2012. From 2012 he is Vicerector international relations at VUB.