Benjamin is an entrepreneur and ex-professor, currently running the advanced manufacturing group at Autodesk. He co-founded Mollom, a web spam filtering service acquired by Acquia, co-founded circuits.io, an online open hardware community, acquired by Autodesk, and founded the Reservoir Lab at Ghent University, focused on deep learning, reservoir computing and robotics. He studied computer science at the University of Antwerp and went on to get an engineering degree and a Ph.D. at Ghent University. On the off days, Ben loves climbing, running long distances or paragliding. He also has a keen interest in electronic music and all machines generating it. You can follow Ben on Twitter.