Kristof Croes

Kristof Croes received the M.Sc. degree in physics and biostatistics and the Ph.D. degree concerning the development of statistical techniques for planning reliability experiments from Hasselt University (UHASSELT), Hasselt, Belgium, in 1993 and 1999, respectively. For seven years, he was a Product and Application Manager of the package level reliability products of the Singaporean based company Chiron holdings. Since 2007, he went back to research, where he is currently the Group Leader of the reliability group of imec, Leuven, Belgium, working on the reliability of advanced devices and interconnects. He was an (invited/tutorial) speaker with several leading-edge semi-conductor conferences [IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), IEEE International Interconnect Technology Conference (IITC), and IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM)]. He also (co)authored more than 100 articles in the field of reliability.