Loe Feijs

Loe Feijs is Full Professor of Industrial Design of Embedded Systems. His research aims to pave the way for a new type of industrial design practice based on a deeper technical understanding of the power of computation, sensing and connectivity. Feijs and his team create novel demonstrators using creative programming, creative electronics, mechanics, machine learning, connectivity and mathematics. In the future, designers should be able to design fluently with contemporary engineering concepts and use their inherent aesthetics.

Industrial Design of Embedded Systems contributes technology to other chairs in the department. Working with other departments of TU/e, research hospitals and strategic partners in world-class research ecosystems on selected medical domains, Feijs and his group aim to bridge the gap between formal approaches of technology engineering and the creative needs of contemporary and future industrial design.

Feijs has extensive industrial experience in telecommunication, formal design methods, software testing and embedded systems. In software architecture he created RPA (Relation Partition Algebra), which was used in organizations such as Philips, VU, Fraunhofer, NASA and FDA. He is currently supervising or co-supervising 15 PhD students. His research interests include generative design, unobtrusive monitoring and bio-feedback.

Design is no longer about materials or body ergonomics. Algorithms are our new materials. My task is to mediate between the language of the computer and the language of design.”