Prof. Dr. Rolf ErnstRolf Ernst got a diploma in computer science and a Ph.D. (with honors) in electrical engineering from the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 81 and 87. From 88 to 89, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Computer Aided Design & Test Laboratory at Lucent Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA. Since 90, he has been a professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, where he heads the Institute of Computer Engineering and Communication Networks.
Braunschweig, Germany
He has chaired numerous major international events, such as the International
Conference on Computer Aided Design of VLSI (ICCAD), or the Design Automation
and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference and Exposition and is Vice Chair of
the European Design Automation Association (EDAA). His research work has
been supported by the German "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (corresponds
to the NSF), by the German BMBF and AIF, by the European Union and by industrial
contracts. He gave numerous embedded tutorials and tutorials on major international
events and contributed to seminars and summer schools in the areas of hardware/software
co-design, embedded system architectures, and system modeling and verification.
He serves as an ACM-SIGDA Distinguished Lecturer. His current research
interests include embedded architectures, high-level synthesis, hardware-/software
co-design, and embedded systems engineering.