SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES

Geert Vanmeerbeeck obtained a Masters degree in Industrial Sciences (Electronics) at De Nayer Polytechnic School for Engineers, Belgium in 1998.  Since then he is working as a Researcher at IMEC in the Design Technology division.  Previous research topics include FPGA design and HW-SW co-design. His main research interest is in the modeling of heterogeneous NoC-based MPSoC platforms and the validation of optimization and application mapping tools on these platforms.

Kari Tiensyrjä received M.Sc. degree in 1976 from the University of Oulu. He joined VTT in 1977 and has acted as senior research scientist and research group manager. He has participated as VTT responsible in a number of national and EU research projects. He acts as the president of the ECSI association (European electronic Chips and Systems design Initiative). He has published more than 60 papers and is co-author/editor of two books published by Springer and Kluwer. He has been program committee member and reviewer of papers for several conferences and journals.

Jari Kreku received M.Sc. (Tech.) degree from the University of Oulu in 2001. He has worked at VTT since 1999 and as a research scientist since 2001. His current research topics include early-phase system evaluation methods, workload-based computer system performance simulation, and mappability of algorithms and processor architectures. He participated in several national and EU research projects. He has published 15 scientific journal or conference articles and has been working on his post-graduate studies since 2004.

Axel Jantsch received a Dipl.Ing. (1988) and a Dr. Tech. (1992) degree from the Technical University Vienna. Since December 2002 he is full professor in Electronic System Design at KTH. A. Jantsch has published over 200 papers in international conferences and journals, and three books in the areas of Network on Chip, SoC, VLSI design, system level specification, modelling and validation. He has served on a number of technical program committees of international conferences and he was Subject Area Editor for the Journal of System Architecture. He has been leading the NoC research at KTH since 2001.

Dimitrios Soudris received the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Patras in 1992. He was working as Lecturer, Ass. and Assoc. Professor in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace for thirteen years since 1995. Currently, he is Ass. Professor in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens, NTUA Greece. His research interests include embedded systems design, VLSI Systems design and reconfigurable architectures. He has published more than 220 papers in international journals and conferences. He is editor in five books of Kluwer and Springer. He is leader and principal investigator in numerous research projects funded from the Greek Government and Industry as well as the European Commission ICT. He has served as General Chair and Program Chair for the International Workshop on Power and Timing Modelling, Optimisation, and Simulation (PATMOS) and General Chair of IFIP-VLSI-SOC 2008. Also, he received an award from INTEL and IBM for the project results of LPGD and HiPEAC Award.

Bernard Candaele is Deputy Director of the Embedded Digital Systems Center at Thales Communications and Manager of the Electronic Segment of Hardware R&T Board for Thales Group. After a first experience at Intel, Chandler and then at Cimatel, Paris (common design center for Intel/Matra-Harris) as microprocessor IC designer and project leader for automotive and telecom micro-controllers, he has been with Thomson-Csf now Thales since 1988. He had several technical and managing responsibilities inside the company. He has competencies in SoC projects for telecom, multimedia and security related products, in integration technologies, in computing architectures, in EDA solutions for embedded electronics development, and in R&D activities in co-operation within European and National programs. Bernard Candaele is a Thales senior expert, member of Thales Hardware R&T steering Board, an IEEE member and he is author or co-author of more than 70 papers.