Bram Verhoef has a background in statistics, psychology and neuroscience. After receiving his PhD in 2010 from KU Leuven, he conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, focusing on the computational neuroscience underlying attention mechanisms. In 2017 he returned to Belgium to work at imec as a Principal Member of Technical Staff, leading the algorithm development related to a novel analog compute-in-memory deep learning chip. In 2021 he co-founded Axelera AI and is currently Head of Machine Learning, leading the algorithm optimization efforts for Axelera AI’s state-of-the-art deep learning accelerator.