Jörg Henkel

Biography

Prof. Jörg Henkel is with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he is directing the Chair for Em-bedded Systems CES. Before, he was a Senior Research Staff Member at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. He received his PhD from Braunschweig University with "Summa cum Laude". Prof. Henkel has/is organizing various embedded systems and low power ACM/IEEE conferences/symposia as General Chair and Program Chair and was a Guest Editor on these topics in various Journals like the IEEE Computer Magazine. He was Program Chair of CODES'01, RSP'02, ISLPED’06, SIPS'08, CASES'09, Estimedia'11, VLSI Design'12, ICCAD’12, PATMOS’13, NOCS’14, DAC’20,  and served as General Chair for CODES'02, ISLPED’09, Estimedia’12, ICCAD’13, ESWeek'16 and DAC'23. He is/has been a steering committee member of major conferences in the embedded systems field like at DAC, ICCAD, ESWeek, ISLPED, Codes+ISSS, CASES and is/has been an editorial board member of various journals like the IEEE TVLSI, IEEE TCAD, IEEE TMSCS, ACM TCPS, JOLPE etc. In recent years, Prof. Henkel has given around ten keynotes at various international conferences primarily with focus on embedded systems dependa-bility. He has given full/half-day tutorials at leading conferences like DAC, ICCAD, DATE etc. Prof. Henkel received the 2008 DATE Best Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE/ACM William J. Mc Calla ICCAD Best Paper Award, the Codes+ISSS 2015, 2014, and 2011 Best Paper Awards, and the MaXentric Technologies AHS 2011 Best Paper Award as well as the DATE 2013 Best IP Award and the DAC 2014 Designer Track Best Poster Award. He is the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society, Germany Section, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS) for two consecutive terms. He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Design&Test Magazine from January 2016 to Dec. 2021. He was the Vice Chair and Conference Chair of ACM SIGDA and is currently the Vice President Publications of IEEE CEDA. Since 2023 he has been the Steering Committee Chair of ACM/IEEE ESWeek. He is an initiator and the coordinator of the German Research Foundation's (DFG) program on 'Dependable Embedded Systems' (SPP 1500). He was the site coordinator (Karlsruhe site) of the Three-University Collaborative Research Center on "Invasive Computing" (DFG TR89). He holds ten US patents and is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM.