Bernd Becker - Curriculum vitae#

EDUCATION

• 1988 University of Saarland, Faculty for Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Habilitation in Computer Science. Postdoc Advisor: Prof. Dr. G. Hotz, Topic: Design and Test of Boolean Circuits.
• 1983 Dr. Eduard - Martin - Award of Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität des Saarlandes for ``outstanding scientific work in his PhD thesis.
• 1973-1982 University of Saarland, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Diploma in Mathematics (1979). Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dr. G. Frey. Diploma Thesis Title: An Algebraic Proof of the Main Theorems of Complex Multiplication. PhD (1982). Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dr. G. Hotz. PhD Thesis Title: On the Crossing-free, Rectangular Embedding of Weighted Graphs in the Plane.

EMPLOYMENT / EXPERIENCE

• 2010-2012 Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg
• 2009/2010 Off-Site Visiting Professor, VLSI Design and Education Center, University of Tokyo (2 months)
• 2002/2003 Mentor Graphics Corporation, Design for Test Division, Wilsonville, Oregon (Visiting Researcher 2 months)
• since 1995 Professor (C4) for Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Freiburg, Head of the Chair of Computer Architecture until 2021
• 1993-1994 Visiting Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA.
• 1992 Offer for a professorship (C4) in practical computer science (Gesamthochschule Essen)
• 1989-1995 Professor (C3) for Complexity Theory and Efficient Algorithms, Computer Science Department, J.W. Goethe - University Frankfurt am Main
• 1988-1989 Researcher and Lecturer in the Leibniz-Program of DFG (Prof. G. Hotz).
• 1987-1988 Visiting Professor, Computer Science Department, J.W. Goethe - University Frankfurt am Main.
• 1985 Siemens AG, Testabteilung, ZTI DES V, Munich (Visiting Scientist, 2 months)
• 1984-1988 Researcher and Lecturer in the Sonderforschungsbereich 124 (B1) VLSI Design Methods and Parallel Algorithms, University of Saarland and Kaiserslautern.
• 1982 Siemens AG, Testabteilung, ZTI DES V, Munich (Visiting Scientist, 2 months)
• 1981-1983 Researcher, Computer Science Department (Prof. Dr. G. Hotz), University of Saarland
• 1979-1981 Researcher in the Sonderforschungsbereich 100 Elektronic Speech Recognition, University of Saarland.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• 2011-2019 Member of the Scientific Directorate, Leibniz Center for Informatics, Schloss Dagstuhl
• since 2010 Board of Directors, Centre for Security and Society, University of Freiburg
• 2010-2015 Member of Steering Committee: IEEE International Workshop on Reliability Aware System Design and Test (RASDAT)
• 2007-2020 Member of Steering Committee: European Test Symposium (ETS)
• 2007-2017 Topic Chair / Co-Chair "Test Generation, Simulation and Diagnosis", DATE (Design and Test in Europe)
• 2007 General Chair, ETS (European Test Symposium)
• since 2005 Member of the Graduate School 1103 Embedded Microsystems
• 2005-2009 Member of the Graduate School 806 Mathematische Logik und Anwendungen
• 2003-2015 Co-Speaker of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 14 Automatic Verification and Analysis of Complex Systems (AVACS)
• 1997-2003 Program Committee Member, ETW (European Test Workshop)
• 2000-2001 Member of the Organizing Committee of ICCD (International Conference of Computer Design)
• 1990-2020 Member of the Steering Committee of the German GI/ITG/GME Group on Testing and Fault Tolerance.
• 1999 General Co-Chair, ISMVL (International Symposium on Multiple Valued Logic)

HONOURS, AWARDS

• 2021 EDA-Medal by German edacentrum
• 2013 Teaching Award Unviersity of Freiburg
• 2012 Fellowship for Innovations in University Teaching (Baden-Württemberg Stiftung, Joachim Herz Stiftung und Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft)
• 2012 Instructional Development Award, University of Freiburg
• since 2011 Member of Academia Europaea
• since 2008 IEEE Fellow for contributions to the development of algorithms and data structures for testing and verification of integrated circuits

PATENTS

• Patent DE3734816: Schneller, leicht generierbarer und leicht testbarer VLSI Addierer; 27.4.1989, Patentinhaber: Siemens AG; Erfinder: Bernd Becker, Reiner Kolla
• Patent US5153849: Multiplier Having an Optimum Arrangement of Anding and Adding Circuits; 6.10.1992; Patentinhaber: Siemens AG; Erfinder: Gerd Venzl, Rebecca Mitchell, Ulrich Nerz, Holger Soukup, Wolfram Roth, Bernd Becker

PUBLICATIONS

More than 200 publications in conferences, journals and books during the last 10 years.

RESEARCH AREAS & PROJECTS

The research activities of Bernd Becker have been primarily in the area of computer-aided design, test and verification of (digital) circuits and systems (VLSI CAD). A focus of his research is the development and analysis of efficient data structures and algorithms in VLSI CAD. The development of symbolic methods for test and verification of digital circuits and their integration in the industrial flow is one of the major achievements of his work. More recently, he has been working on reliability issues of embedded systems (in particular formal methods for safety and security concerns) and test techniques for nanoelectronic circuitry. He has published more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. He has been the holder of several research grants from DFG, BMBF, EU, and industry as well.

TEACHING SUBJECTS

Introductory computer science, computer architecture, embedded systems, verification, security, test and reliability. To the teaching section of the chair of computer architecture