Juergen Becker

Karlsruhe Inst. Tech., Karlsruhe, DE

Jürgen Becker received the Diploma and Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree from RPTU in Kaiserslautern, Germany.  Since 2001 he is full professor for embedded electronic systems and Head of the Institute for Information Processing Technologies (ITIV) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).  From 2005-2009 he has been Vice President for Education at Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) and Chief Higher Education Officer (CHEO) at KIT from 2009-2012.  From 2012 till 2014 he served as Secretary General of CLUSTER, an association of 12 leading Technical Universities in Europe.  His research interests include Hardware/Software Codesign, System-on-Chip (SoC) Integration, Heterogenous Multicore (MC) Architectures & Design Methods, Reconfigurable Computing, AI Accelerators & Integration, with application in Automotive, Industrial, Medicine, Robotics, Avionics, etc.  He authored over 500 papers, incl. 30 patents and has been coordinating several national and European projects.  Prof. Becker is since 2003 Director at the Computer Science Research Center (FZI) in the Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering (ESS) group, he is very active in numerous IEEE conferences, a Member of the DFG Fachkollegium “Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik”, among several advisory board memberships.