Curriculum Vitae

Jürgen Becker received the Diploma degree in 1992, and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree in 1997, both at Kaiserslautern University, Germany. His research work focused on application development environments for reconfigurable accelerators and included hardware/software codesign, parallelizing compilers, customized computing, and high-level synthesis. He has been local administrator for the European Design Project EUROCHIP in 1993/95. In 1997 Dr. Becker joined the Institute of Microelectronic Systems at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, as assistant professor, where he taught CAD algorithms for VLSI design. He did research in Systems-on-Chip (SoC) architectures and reconfigurable technologies for mobile communication systems, including the development of corresponding IP-based CAD methods.

Since 2001 Jürgen Becker is professor for embedded electronic systems at the Institut fuer Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV) at the University of Karlsruhe. He gives lectures in digital design (undergraduate), in CAD algorithms for high-level synthesis and VLSI design, hardware/software codesign, as well as in bus interfaces and protocols. His actual research is focused on industrial-driven SoCs with emphasis on adaptive embedded systems, e.g. dynamically reconfigurable hardware architectures. This includes corresponding hardware/software codesign and co-synthesis techniques from high-level specifications, as well as low power SoC optimization. Prof. Becker is co-director of the Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering (ESS) group at the Computer Science Research Center (FZI).

He is author and co-author of more than 400 scientific papers (+ more than 30 patents), published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and active in several technical program and steering committees of international conferences and workshops. Prof. Becker started in October 2004 as Vice President of Universität Karlsruhe (TH) responsible for the area Studies and Teaching, respectively since October 2009 to March 2012 as Chief Higher Education Officer (CHEO) of the KIT.

From 2012 until 2014 he serves as Secretary General of CLUSTER, an association of 12 leading technical universities in Europe.

In 2013 Prof. Becker received the Honorary Doctor award (Dr. h. c.) from Technical University Budapest (Hungary).

Research

Head of the research area "Embedded Electronic Systems" with the research focus on

• System-on-Chip (SoC), Network-on-Chip (NoC)
• Hardware Software Codesign
• Multi-Core Processor Architectures
• HPC- & KI-based System Integration
  • Specific Accelerators
  • Reliability, Real-time and Power
• Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems
• Hardware Synthesis Methods and Multi-Domain Modeling & Simulation Techniques
• Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)

Head of the Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering (ESS) department at the FZI

Awards

Executive functions and roles

• Lecturer at the Hector School of Engineering and Management (Technical Business School of the KIT)
• Managing Director of the International Department at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (2002-2005)
• Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (2005-2009)
• Member of the Executive Board of the German Section of the IEEE and Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch at KIT (2006-today)
• Managing Director of the University Didactics Center Baden-Württemberg (2007-2012)
• Chief Higher Education Officer (CHEO) of the KIT (2009-2012)
• Director at the Research Center for Information Technology(FZI) in the Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering(ESS) research group
• Dean of Studies NwT(https://www.sle.kit.edu/vorstudium/lehramt-nwt.php)(until 2017)
• Member of the HoC Board of Directors (House of Competence) (until 2017)
• Member of the KSETA Scientific Council (Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics)
• Member of the KCETA Steering Committee (KIT Center for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics)
• Coordinator KIT / KIC EIThealth
• Secretary General CLUSTER (until 2014) (consortium of 12 universities)

Conferences

• FPL (International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications)
• RAW (Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop)
• ARC (International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing)
• ISVLSI (IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI)
• IEEE SOCC (IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference)
• PATMOS (International Workshop on Power And Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation)

Projects (selection)

	XANDAR project Software and hardware for networked embedded systems must meet the highest requirements in terms of safety, real-time capability, energy and resource efficiency. In the XANDAR project, eight partners from science and industry are developing a complete toolchain for software development and hardware-software integration for complex applications on future processor platforms, for example in autonomous vehicles and for future urban air mobility concepts. (https://www.itiv.kit.edu/7429.php)
	ARAMiS II project Future safety-critical applications in the automotive and aviation industries, as well as the future topic of Industry 4.0, show a significant increase in demand for digital computing power. This demand corresponds to the fact that the processors of embedded systems will also be based on multicore technology in the near future, which has long been successfully used in other application areas such as PCs, tablets and smartphones (https://www.itiv.kit.edu/5158.php)
	ARAMiS project ARAMiS (Automotive, Railway and Avionics Multicore Systems) aims to create the technological basis for further increasing safety, traffic efficiency and comfort through the use of multicore technology in the mobility domains of automotive, avionics and railroad.
	Open6G Hub 6G represents wireless communication in our future highly networked world. It enables the networking of autonomous devices, vehicles and drones and creates the basis for the high communication bandwidths required in the future. Within the Open 6G Hub project, the development of a global 6G standard is being driven forward in order to take social priorities into account and to strengthen the position of Germany and Europe in the international competition for 6G. (https://www.itiv.kit.edu/201_8061.php)
	CeCaS - Central Car Server Automated, connected and electrified vehicles are picking up speed. However, energy-efficient and cost-effective high-end compute platforms that can keep pace with the requirements in terms of computing power and complexity with full automotive qualification (ASIL-D) are lacking for full suitability for everyday use. AI-based areas in particular, such as autonomous driving, require customized, real-time capable and energy-efficient high-performance processors. It's all about performance and safety from a single source - and the future viability of the automotive industry. (https://www.itiv.kit.edu/201_8769.php)
	EMDRIVE The overarching goal of EMDRIVE is a hierarchical, scalable platform concept for distributed heterogeneous automotive real-time computing network architectures - Centralized High-Performance Automotive RT-Compute Boardnets (Sensor2Edge). The results are to be incorporated into automotive production beyond the project. (https://www.itiv.kit.edu/201_8233.php)
	BELLE II The Belle II experiment in Tsukuba, Japan offers unique opportunities to study rare τ decays and to study certain forms of dark photons and physics beyond the standard model. For this purpose, electrons and their protons are accelerated to almost the speed of light in the asymmetric SuperKEKB in order to collide them in the Belle II detector. The resulting decay products are measured and recorded in order to analyze the data later. It is important to distinguish interesting new data from already known decays. To ensure this, a two-stage trigger system is installed to analyze all decays. The first stage consists of a pipelined, dead time-free FPGA system. The second stage, on the other hand, is calculated on mainframe computers using software. (https://www.itiv.kit.edu/201_8048.php)

Innovation

	emmtrix Technologies GmbH emmtrix Technologies GmbH is a spin-off of the Institute for Information Processing (ITIV) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The company develops software tools that significantly simplify and optimize the programming of multi-core processors in embedded systems (e.g. driver assistance systems). (www.emmtrix.com)