Yolande Berbers

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Yolande Berbers is a Belgian computer scientist whose interests include software engineering, middleware, distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, model-driven architecture, and context awareness. She is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven, vice-dean of the KU Leuven Faculty of Engineering, and president of the Leuven Center on Information and Communication Technology. [1]

Berbers became a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2014. [2] She was elected president of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) in 2019. [3]

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  1. Yolande Berbers, KU Leuven, retrieved 2021-03-19
  2. Members, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, retrieved 2021-03-19
  3. New SEFI president, vice president, board members and SIG chairs, European Society for Engineering Education, 25 September 2019, retrieved 2021-03-19