Iven Mareels leads the IBM Research Lab in Australia, which focuses on AI and quantum computing initiatives, and is an honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne. For over a decade, he was the Dean of Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Iven is also a Commander in the Order of the Crown of Belgium, a fellow of The Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Australia; the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA), the International Federation of Automatic Control and Engineers Australia. He is a foreign member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts.