Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Wehn
Address
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße
Building 12, Room 232
67663 Kaiserslautern
Contact
Phone: (+49) 631 / 205-4436
Fax: (+49) 631 / 205-4437
Email: norbert.wehn(at)rptu.de
Research Areas
Microelectronic architectures for mobile communication, forward error correction techniques, low power techniques, advanced System-on Chip (SoC) architectures, processing-in-memory architectures, IoT, hardware accelerators for machine learning, smart learning environments, sustainability, memory architectures, DRAM modeling and controller.
Education and Professional Career
1978 - 1984 | Field of Study: Computer Engineering at the TU Darmstadt, diploma degree |
1984 - 1991 | Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant at the Institute for Microelectronics at the TU Darmstadt, Germany |
| 1989 | Ph.D. ("summa cum laude") |
1991 - 1994 | Central Research and Development at Siemens AG |
1994 - 1997 | Head of the Product Development Section Standard Derivatives, Semiconductor Division at Siemens AG |
| 1995 | Habilitation, Official Lecturer at the TU Darmstadt |
| 1997 | Acceptance of a C3 professorship offer at the TU Kaiserslautern |
| 2000 | Refusal of a C4 professorship offer at the University of Bochum for the Chair "Integrated Circuits" |
2001 | Refusal of a C4 professorship offer at the University of Mannheim for the Chair "Circuit Design" |
| 2001 | Acceptance of a C4 professorship offer at the TU Kaiserslautern for the Chair "Microelectronic Systems Design" |
| 2008 | Refusal of a W3 professorship offer at the TU Darmstadt for the Chair "Integrated Electronic Systems" |
2013 - 2017 | Vice President of University of Kaiserslautern for Studies, Teaching and International affairs |
Conference Activities
- Member of the Executive Committee DATE-Conference 2002-today
- Vice General Chair DATE-Conference 2002
- Program Chair DATE-Conference 2003
- Vice General Chair DATE-Conference 2004
- General Chair DATE-Conference 2005
- Member of the Executive Committee ICCAD 2006-2008
- Program Chair edaWorkshop 2007-2009
- Member of the Executive Committee DAC-Conference 2011-2013
- General Cochair International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 2014
- Member of the Program Committee of various national and international conferences
Occupational Activities
- Speaker of the ITG/GMM/GI Technical Committee "Rechnergestützter Schaltungs- und Systementwurf" from 2000-2009
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the GMM und ITG from 2000-2009
- Member of the scientific advisory board of the "Europäischen Akademie Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler" 2007-2013
- Associate Editor of the "Design Automation for Embedded Systems" Journal, Springer, USA
- Speaker of the Research Center "Ambient Systems" at the TU Kaiserslautern 2005-2014
- Board Member of the "Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling" at the TU Kaiserslautern
- Several industrial consulting activities
- Chair of the "European Design Automation Association" 2009-2012, since 2020
- Member of the Kaiserslautern University Council, since 2018
- Member of the DFG Fachkollegium „Rechnerarchitekturen und eingebettete Systeme“, since 2020
Prizes and Honours
- "Goebel-Preis der Köhler Stiftung für hervorragende wissenschaftliche Arbeit" 1989
- "University Partnership in Research Award 2000 for Technical Excellence" Firma Motorola
- "Multimediapreis des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz 2001"
- "Design Contest Award in Silicon Realization Category" DATE 2004"
- "Design Contest Award in Silicon Realization Category" DATE 2005"
- "Golden Core Member" IEEE Computer Society 2006
- "Outstanding Contribution Award" IEEE Computer Society 2006
- "Date Fellow" 2007
- "Senior Member" IEEE 2010
- "Best Paper Cosar Award" IEEE SoC Design Conference 2011
- "Lehrpreis 2012/2011" des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz"
- "HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award" 2015
- "Best Paper Award" IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI 2015
- "Best Paper Award" MEMSYS Conference 2016
- "Best Paper Award" Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics 2017
- "Best Paper Award" MEMSYS Conference 2018
- "Best Paper Award" MEMSYS Conference 2019
- "Best Paper Award" PATMOS Conference 2019
- Winner BMBF Pilotinnovationswettbewerb Energieeffiziente KI-Systeme 2020
- HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award 2020