Yves Baeyens received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium in 1997. After his Ph.D., he spent one and a half year as a visiting scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid-State Physics in Freiburg, Germany.

Since 1998, he has been with Bell Laboratories, in Murray Hill, NJ, USA, currently the research division of Nokia. As a Bell-Labs Principal Scientist, he is responsible for research in mm-wave ASIC's, High-Speed Electronic and Opto-Electronic Systems.

Yves Baeyens is a 2009 Fellow of the IEEE and a 2016 Bell-Labs Fellow. He authored or co-authored over 100 publications on high-speed circuits and semiconductor technologies and received multiple best paper awards including the 2018 ISSCC Lewis Winner Outstanding Paper Award and the IEEE RFIC Symposium Best Industry Paper Awards in both 2015 and 2020.

Since 2003, Yves Baeyens is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Columbia University, New York City, NY, where he teaches a graduate course on advanced microwave circuit design.