Wouter Leibbrandt

Current

Senior Director and Manager Advanced Applications Lab at NXP Semiconductors

Past

General Manager Advanced Systems Lab at NXP Semiconductors
Department Head OS&DTV, Shanghai at Philips Research
Department Head in Optical Storage Research, Eindhoven at Philips Research

Research Scientist at Philips Research

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Education

Universiteit Utrecht
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Industry

Semiconductors

Wouter Leibbrandt’s Experience

Senior Director and Manager Advanced Applications Lab

NXP Semiconductors

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

January 2010 — Present (11 months)

Per 1 January 2010 the activities in NXP Research have been regrouped and the Advanced Applications Lab was formed in which the activities of the Advanced Systems Lab were continued and further focused on the High Performance Mixed Signal strategy of NXP.

The three groups in the lab: Distributed Systems Architectures, Sound & Acoustics - Crypto and Concept Creation are focused at understanding and creating the applications and systems NXP's technology will soon need to perform in. This results in requiements on new products and new technologies on the one hand and in real world concept demonstrators on the other. The future concepts are demonstrated in our NXP Next Experience Lab, located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven.
General Manager Advanced Systems Lab

NXP Semiconductors

(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

August 2006 — January 2010 (3 years 6 months)

The Advanced Systems Labs (ASL) of NXP Semiconductors develops advanced applications and next generation prototyping platforms, spanning the Home, Mobile and Automotive electronics areas. ASL is particularly focused on cross business convergence topics enabled by digital electronics and software. We develop an industry dialogue with leading customers and market-shapers (such as Nokia, BMW, Visa, others). ASL plays an important role in developing market insight and architectures of NXP’s Nexperia systems solutions. ASL is a part of NXP Research and has activities in Eindhoven, Southampton, Leuven and San Jose (USA).
Member of the NXP Research Management Team.
Department Head OS&DTV, Shanghai

Philips Research

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Research industry)

June 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 2 months)

Heading the department Optical Storage and Digital TV at the Philips Research East Asia (PREA) Lab in Shanghai. Extended the fields of research for this group and the PREA lab into (Solid State) Lighting and Medical and Healthcare subjects.
Department Head in Optical Storage Research, Eindhoven

Philips Research

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Research industry)

April 1998 — May 2004 (6 years 2 months)

Head of Research Departments in the Optical Storage domain.
1998-2001: Storage Technologies department, focusing on media technology and drive mechatronics for optical and magneto-optical storage systems.
2001-2004: Storage Systems and Applications department, addressing system aspects like streaming frameworks, real-time behaviour, etc, and application aspects like content management and end-to-end services.
This period saw the launch of re-writable DVD and the definition of Blu-Ray disc. I represented Philips in the BD system layer standards setting during this period.
Research Scientist

Philips Research

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PHG; Research industry)

June 1992 — March 1998 (5 years 10 months)

Industrial research into Optical Storage systems including lightpaths for recordable CD, lightpath for MMCD, later DVD, development of an Optical Tape system, Blu-ray Disc