Ingrid Verbauwhede is a professor at the COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography) Research Group of the Electrical Engineering Department, KU Leuven, where she leads the embedded systems team. She is a pioneer in the field of secure embedded circuits and systems, with several awards recognising her contributions to the field.[1] She is member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts since 2011.[2] She is a fellow of IEEE.