SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES

Prof. Lech Jóźwiak is a Head of the Section of Digital Circuits and Formal Design Methods, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is an author of more than 150 journal and conference papers, some book chapters, and several tutorials at international conferences and summer schools. In particular, he is an author of the methodology of quality-driven design of electronic systems, information-driven approach to digital circuit synthesis, and theories of information relationships and measures and general decomposition of discrete relations that have a considerable practical importance. He is also a creator of a number of practical products in the fields of application-specific embedded systems and EDA tools. His research interests include system, circuit, information and design theories and technologies, decision theory, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, SoC design, (re-)configurable and high-performance computing, multi-objective circuit and system optimization, and system analysis and validation. He is an Editor of “Microprocessors and Microsystems”, “Journal of Systems Architecture” and “International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture”. He is a Director of EUROMICRO; co-founder and Steering Committee Chair of the EUROMICRO Symposium on Digital System Design (DSD); Advisory Committee and Organizing Committee member in the IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED); and program committee member of many other conferences. He is an advisor and consultant to the industry, Ministry of Economy and Commission of the European Communities. He recently advised the European Commission in relation to Embedded and High-performance Computing Systems for the purpose of the Framework Program 7 preparation. In 2008 he was a recipient of the Honorary Fellow Award of the International Society of Quality Electronic Design for “Outstanding Achievements and Contributions to Quality of Electronic Design”.

Dr. Menno Lindwer is a Director of Product Management at Silicon Hive. Silicon Hive is a private company with headquarters in Eindhoven and offices in San Jose, Tokyo, Seoul, and Bangalore, which licenses flexible embedded MPSoC technology based on customizable and extendable parallel ASIP solutions to semiconductor manufacturers and OEMs worldwide, and supports customers in the entire life-cycle of SoCs, and end products. He received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and his Professional Doctorate in Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands in 1993. He subsequently worked on database matching techniques at Utopics BV (currently part of Ordina BV) and Input BV. In 1995, he revisited his M.Sc. subject when started to work for Philips Research on the design of Java and Media processors (TriMedia). In 2002, he joined the Silicon Hive start-up within the Philips Technology Incubator. His work has led to over 20 scientific articles and patent publications (seven patents recently assigned in the US). His interests include low-power application-specific processor subsystems, processor construction templates and methodologies, and spatial compilers. From 2001 until 2003, Menno Lindwer served on the executive committee of the DATE conference. From 2001 onwards, he is also a member of the DATE technical committee. Menno Lindwer co-authored several articles on Ambient Intelligence at DATE, on media processing at IEEE ISM, GSPX, and on compiler technology in IJPP. Menno Lindwer contributed a. o. to the European ACOTES and iGLANCE projects.

Prof. Jan Madsen is a Head of the Section of Embedded Systems Engineering, and Deputy Head of the Department, at DTU Informatics, Technical University of Denmark. He received the MSc. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark in 1986 and 1992, respectively. He has published more than 100 journal and conference papers, 11 book chapters and one edited book. He is heading the cluster on execution platforms in the European Network of Excellence in Embedded Systems Design (ArtistDesign) and is the Danish lead delegate in the Governing Board of ARTEMIS JU. He is a senior member of IEEE and vice-president of IEEE Denmark. His research interests are related to modelling, design and analysis of embedded computer systems, in particular system-level modelling and analysis of multiprocessor systems, adaptive and reconfigurable systems, and microfluidic biochips. He is currently participating in 4 ARTEMIS projects, ASAM, SYSMODEL, SMECY and RECOMP, and a number of National projects on Embedded Systems, including DaNES, MoDES and ProCell, where the latter is related to microfluidic biochips. He is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Design & Test, and a Member of the Steering Board for CODES+ISSS (ESWeek). He is Program Chair of CODES+ISSS 2011 and has chaired major international events, such as DATE’08 (Special Session Chair), DATE’07 (Program Chair), DATE’06 (Tutorial Chair and Vice-Program Chair), CODES 2001 (General Chair) and CODES 2000 (Program Chair). He has served as a technical program committee member on numerous international (ACM/IEEE) conferences.