ETRO Yearly Meeting 2012

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ETRO Yearly Meeting 2012

general presentation(money, money, money

is not funnyin a madmens world)

Roger Vounckx

ETRO Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Annual ETRO Meeting 1March 2012


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ETRO-Dept. of Electronics & Informaticsthree research groups

Multidimensional Signal

Processing & Communication

(IRIS)

Micro- and Photonelectronics(LAMI)

Speech & Audio Processing(DSSP)

Prof. Roger Vounckx

Director of ETRO

(Prof. Jacques Tiberghien)

Education

Prof. MartinTimmerman

Prof. Abdellah TouhafiProf. Diederik Verkest

Embedded Systems

Prof. Bart Dierickx

Micro-electronics

Prof. Roger Vounckx

LAMI

Prof. Maarten KuijkProf. Piet Wambacq

Analog Circuit Design &micro-electronics

Prof. Johan Stiens

Opto-electronics &MMW-THz waves

Dr. Ron Cottam

Living Systems

Prof. Werner Verhelst

DSSP

Prof. Jan Cornelis

IRIS

Prof. Ann DoomsProf. Marnix Goossens

Prof. Jan LemeireProf. Adrian MunteanuProf. Peter Schelkens

Multimedia Representation,Processing,

Transmission, Visualizationand Forensics

Prof. Hichem SahliValentin Enescu

Computer/Machine Vision

Prof. Rudi DeklerkProf. Bart Jansen

Prof Edgard NyssenBart Truyen

Medical Imaging and e-Health

Prof. Kris Steenhaut

Network Control

Prof. Jan Cornelis

IOF Coordination

Karin Debruyn

R&D Admin.

IreneRaadschelders

Education Admin.

Danil CoppeeLuc van Kempen

System Admin.

Prof. Johan Stiens

IMEC Liaison

Prof. PeterSchelkens

IBBT Liaison


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Suppose you are


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Suppose you won


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Suppose you became


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Get funding for your

ministery


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Write a proposal by end of

January

Submit to NFMB

(National Fund for

Ministerial Budgets)

before 31 January


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In the meantime keep

yourself busy


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Get peer reviewed by the NFMBs

expert panel on foreign affairs by

May-June from inside


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and outside Europe


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Then the verdict

Have a 15%

chance ofobtaining 50% of

what you asked

for by January

next year


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This is how science is

treated in many a country

Loss of momentum

Loss of know-how

Waste of talent Burn-out

Killing of creativity and originality

Praise and honors for the best lobbyists


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How then should we

proceed? A suggestion

Funding comes with the job

Funding gradually increases after positive

evaluation

Funding gradually decreases after unfavorableevaluation

Bonuses for national collaboration

Bonuses for international collaboration Projects are the exception, only for setting up a

larger effort requiring high cost equipment


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Flemish universities are largely

subsidized by the Flemish

Community

But according to which parameters?


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EducationVUB Staff

# credit points x #students x Yield x 180

# PhDs delivered x 60,000

# ISI papers x 6,000 # Master thesises x 4,320(= 24 x 180)

ETROs2011VUB payrol staff budget was

1,357,576


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Education VUB staff

9 FTE Professors

6 FTE Assistants

3.2 FTE Administrative and Technical

ETRO = ~100 people


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Education - consumables

A % derived from the attributed staff

For ETRO: 15,8% of the facultys envelope

In 2011 this amounted to 12,000


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Research VUB funding:

staff

Rescue 1 years position for FWO and

IWT failed but well-ranked proposals

6 months for finishing an overdue PhD

Research professorship for 5 years,

renewable (professors and post docs)

Sabbatical leaves (1 year for guestprofessor)


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basic funding

Basic funding for departments, 50-50 based on:

# PhDsdelivered last 7 years with ISI paper

(counted @ 100%)

# PhDsdelivered last 7 years without ISI paper(counted @ 75%)

increase in # of PhDsw.r.t. last year (10%)

# C-publications (ISI papers) volume: 90% Growth in # ISI papers: 10%

ETROsbasic budget is 117,000for 2012


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applications for extras

Professorsbonuses:

New professor (>80%): start lump sum

If performing extremely well in societal valorization of

research (not commercial!)

ResearchersEU incentives:

1st time writing of EU proposal

1st time EU success (co-financing) Any EU success (bonus grant)

EU tenure track (5 years) if preparing EU project or ERC

grant


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serious stuff

Strategic research programs for teams or

departments (at least two professors) (5

years, indefinitely if positive evaluation

every 5 years); budget:

Full program: 150-300 k/year

Growth program: 80-120 k/year


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serious stuff

Interdisciplinary research programs

Setting up of a multi-disciplinary expertise

center (e.g. psychology-physics)

5 years, indefinitely renewable

Budget: 100-110 k/year


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serious stuff

Methusalem

Lifelong funding for a top professor who

proved able to attract a lot of funding and

published many, many papers

7 yearsevaluation

Budget: 5002000 k/year


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much less serious stuff

International cooperation

PhD grants for 3rd world development

Priviliged partner research (Phd grant forstudent from privileged partner)

Bilateral cooperation for joint PhD projects

(unique bench fee of 2000-4000)10% professor positions to raise our

research potential


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Research funding: reaching

outside

Proposals to be submitted to:

FWO (Science fund),Flemish Region

IWT (industrial research), Flemish Region

EU programs: from applied (FP7) to fundamental

(ERC)

IBBT

Innoviris (Brussels region) Timescale: 6 months to 1 year delay

Success rate: from 10% to 50%


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overall ETRO budget performance

Fundamental Strategic R&D European (all) International Industrial (DB)

2010 1.196.828,06 431.510,25 788.170,00 194.589,96 4.329,80 581.307,19 3.196.735,26

2011 1.222.259,07 774.392,25 835.538,74 194.589,96 39.065,20 741.766,25 3.807.611,47

2012 1.020.467,22 418.115,00 1.039.814,19 194.589,96 200.023,00 794.112,48 3.667.121,85

32% 20% 22% 5% 1% 19% 100%

0

1000000

2000000

3000000

4000000

5000000

6000000

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

ETRO Research income

Fundamental Strategic R&D European (all) International Industrial (DB)

in 2011 we generated a research income of about3.8 mio andin 2012 we are well underway with 3.7 mio

30% Fundamental

20% Strategic

20% R&D centres

5% European1% International

20% Industrial


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What is wrong with us??

Success of applications based on

publication records

We are directly compared to other

departments in the faculty


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Our publication record

Books Journals Confs

2010 9 28 842011 10 29 92

2012 1 11 12

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20

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60

80

100

120

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160

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

ETRO Publications(etro database)

Books Journals Confs


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Compared to others

Journal papers 2011

ELEC: 32

CHIS: 48 MECH: 20

TONA: 33

ETRO: 10


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Compared to others

PhD students:

ELEC: 22

CHIS: 13 MECH: 35

TONA: 25

ETRO: 63


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Meaning

Ratio (publications/PhD)

ELEC: 1,45

CHIS: 3,69 MECH: 0,57

TONA: 1,32

ETRO: 0,17


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We are the most inefficient

research community of all

This must change!

Even in my ideal funding comes with the

job scenario, we might not survive

regular evaluation based on originality

rather than paper output and our budget

would go down

We lose approximately a yearly 75,000

of basic VUB funding because of our lack

of output


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Finally


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Many thanks!

Thanks to all who have contributed toassembling these data, last minute as always

but with genuine enthusiasm


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Education

Jacques Tiberghien

ETRO Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Annual ETRO Meeting 27-Jan-


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ETRO

ZAP

Annual ETRO Meeting 11-Jan-2008

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Av.load/ZAP:13.95 sp.or 63h.

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ETRO

AAP


Hours exercices: 1116 h

Hours lab: 1236 h

Total: 2352 h

#AAP: 8

Hours/AAP: 294 h

40% of AAP time = 600 h



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MSc in Engineering


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MSc in Engineering

Electronics and Information

Technology

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MSc in Engineering

Photonics

Nederlands

English

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Jointly organizedby VUB & UG

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MSc in Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

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MSc in Engineering

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Education

Quality Monitoring

High quality teaching takes time but attracts students

More students =

Necessary condition to keep masters (and VUB) alive !

Better recruitment for masters thesis's and new researchers

Quality is monitored by DOE: Feedback is key to improvement

Results communicated to ZAP

Feedback too AAP and BAP

is responsibility of ZAP

Yearly recurrent criticisms should

be taken very seriously!

In ETRO, evaluations are collected by education coordinator and can

be consulted by concerned AAP & BAP.


ETRO R h b d


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ETRO : Research based

courses

1. Imaging technologiesJan Cornelis, Adrian Monteanu, Edgard Nyssen, Hichem Sahli

2. Speech and audio technologyWerner Verhelst

3. Telecommunications & MultimediaMarnix Goossens, Peter Schelkens, Kris Steenhaut, Jacques Tiberghien

4. Computer & systems architectureErik Dirkx, Peter Schelkens, Jacques Tiberghien, Martin Timmerman, D.Verkest

5. Electronic circuits and systems

Maarten Kuijk, Johan Stiens, Roger Vounckx, Piet Wambacq6. Photon electronicsJohan Stiens, Roger Vounckx

7. Artificial IntelligenceAnn Nowe , Edgard Nyssen

8. Embedded systemsBjorn De Sutter,Martin Timmerman, Abdellah Touhafi, D.Verkest

Annual ETRO Meeting 27-Jan-


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