Benoit Macq

Benoit Macq is a Professor at Université catholique de Louvain, where responsibilities include teaching image processing and serving as Pro-Rector for "Service à la Société." Since January 2023, Benoit has also been the Director of the Technology and Society Class at the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, facilitating multidisciplinary debates on technological and societal transitions. Benoit serves as Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, starting in January 2024. Previous roles include research in image compression at Philips Laboratory Belgium and a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Université catholique de Louvain, completed in 1984, as well as early career experience in planning telecommunication networks in Angola.