Ivo Bolsens

He oversees advanced hardware and software technology development, including future architecture directions and software stacks to enable emerging opportunities in the fields of AI, high performance  and embedded computing.  His team is  also driving the  university partnerships to create a thriving, global ecosystem for AMD technology in academia. 

Bolsens joined AMD in 2022, as part of the Xilinx acquisition. At Xilinx, he served as the Chief Technology Officer in charge of corporate research. He joined Xilinx  in 2001 from the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), an international research center based in Belgium. At IMEC he  was vice president leading the R&D of digital signal processing hardware and software. During his tenure at IMEC, he and his team spun-out three successful startups in the field of SOC design tools and wireless systems. 

Bolsens serves on the advisory boards of IMEC, the Engineering Departments of San Jose State University and Santa Clara University, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. He is also a board member of EvoNexus, a startup technology incubator.

Bolsens holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Science from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.