Curriculum Vitae

Juergen 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 Juergen 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 250 scientific papers, published in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and active in several technical program and steering committees of international conferences and workshops. He is a Member of the german GI and Senior Member of the IEEE. Prof. Becker is chair of the GI/ITG Technical Committee of 'Architekturen fuer hochintegrierte Schaltungen' and is member of "Editorial Board of  IEEE Transaction on Computers" and "Executive Committee der Deutschen Sektion des IEEE". 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.

Research

Management of the research area "Embedded electronic Systems" with the projects

• System Design for reconfigurable Hardware, e.g. in Automotive
• Multi-Core Architectures and Technologies
• Hardware/Software Codesign
• System-on-Chip-Integration

Teaching

• State Teaching Award 2003
• Digital System Design
• Hardware Synthesis and Optimisation
  
• Project Systems Engineering
  
• Team Project Systems Engineering
  
• Hardware/Software Codesign
• Communication Systems and Protocols
  
• Praktikum System-on-Chip
• Seminar on Information Processing Technology

Activities

• Since July 2012 CLUSTER Secretary-General
• Member in KSETA (Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and Technology)
• Chair of the GI/ITG Technical Committee of Architekturen fuer hochintegrierte Schaltungen.
• Co-director of the International Department at the University of Karlsruhe.
• Co-Director of the Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering (ESS) group at the Computer Science Research Center (FZI) at the University of Karlsruhe.
• Dagstuhl Seminar Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures.
• 11th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop RAW 2004.
• International conference on Field-Programmable Logic and its Applications (FPL 2004).
• Associate Editor IEEE Transaction on Computers.
• Executive Committee der Deutschen Sektion des IEEE.
• Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems Design (SBCCI 2004)
• IEEE International SoC Conference (SOCC 2004)"
• Professor of the HECTOR School Engineering and Management (the Technology Business School of KIT)