Speakers / Organizers

Dr.ir. Sander Stuijk received his M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Electrical Engineering in 2002 and his Ph.D. degree in 2007 from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Sander Stuijk has been working as a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany (2009). His research interests include modeling methods and mapping techniques for the design, specification, analysis and synthesis of predictable hardware/software systems.

Prof.dr.ir. Twan Basten is professor of computational models in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology and a research fellow of the Embedded Systems Institute, both in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He received his Master’s (with honors) and Ph.D. degrees in computing science from Eindhoven University of Technology in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Waterloo, Canada, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. His research interests include the design of resource-constrained embedded systems, based on a solid mathematical foundation, with a focus on networked and multiprocessor systems. Twan Basten is and has been involved in several international research projects (FP5, FP6, and FP7), and several Dutch projects, also as a project leader. He has served (or is serving) in over 45 technical program committees. He (co)authored 1 book and over 120 scientific publications, of which four received a best paper award.

Dr. Benny Akesson got a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden in 2005. In 2010, Dr. Akesson received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology on the topic of predictable and composable memory controllers. This research was conducted in collaboration with NXP Semiconductors. Dr. Akesson is currently extending his work as a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests include memory controller architectures, real-time resource scheduling, performance modeling, and virtualization.

Dr.ir. Marc Geilen received his M.Sc. degree (with honors) in Information Technology in 1996 and his Ph.D. in 2002, both from the Eindhoven University of Technology. He is currently an assistant professor in the electronic systems group and has been involved with different European IST projects and national research projects. He has been a visiting Mackay Professor at the EECS department at UC Berkeley in 2010. His research interests include validation and (formal) verification, modeling, simulation and programming paradigms for streaming systems and multi-dimensional optimization and trade-off analysis.

Orlando Moreira is a senior scientist at ST-Ericsson. He graduated in Electronics Engineering from the University of Aveiro. Before joining ST- Ericsson, he worked for Philips Research and NXP Semiconductors. In 2007-2008, he led a joint Nokia, NXP and ST-Ericsson team in developing a hard-real-time software architecture for radios. He published work on reconfigurable computing, real-time multiprocessor scheduling, and dataflow analysis.

Dr. Jan Reineke received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Oldenburg in 2003 and a Master's from Saarland University in 2005, both in Computer Science. In late 2008, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Caches in WCET Analysis" at Saarland University. Since 2009, he is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in the group of Edward A. Lee. His research interests include timing predictability with a focus on the memory hierarchy, WCET analysis, and static analysis by abstract interpretation, in particular cache and shape analysis.