Stef Cuyckens was born in Leuven (Belgium) in 2001.
He received his M.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering from KU Leuven in 2024. The subject of his Master's thesis was "Hardware Optimizations for iEEG Seizure Detection with Sparse Distributed Binary Hyperdimensional Computing".
He joined MICAS as a research assistant in October 2024 to pursue a Ph.D. degree under the guidance of prof. Marian Verhelst on heterogeneous multi-processors for continual learning at the edge.