Three Years of Passion and Evolution in Design Automation

Excellent research, excellent teaching, excellent service to our scientific community and university – and, ideally, some fun along the way. Those were the goals when, in March 2022, we started the Chair for Design Automation at the Technical University of Munich. Now, three years later, I am happy and proud to say that we delivered. In all these aspects that are at the core of work at a university, we managed to achieve numerous and outstanding results that have been widely recognized and appreciated by the community – and even provided the basis for our first start-up.

Of course, this was only possible with the tremendous support by our university, the Bavarian State Government (and particularly their support through the Bayerische Spitzenprofessur as part of the High Tech Agenda Bayern), the funding agencies who supported us (in particular the European Research Council, the European Union, and the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz), our colleagues and partners, our students, as well as the best team someone can wish for.

For all of them, as well as for our friends and family who supported us in our passion, we created this report. It aims to summarize, in layman terms, what we worked on and what we accomplished in the past years. We hope this small “love letter” to our work conveys our enthusiasm and dedication, and gives you a glimpse into why we find what we do so fascinating.

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Acknowledgements

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made this report possible. From collecting data to designing the layout and overseeing the final print – your hard work behind the scenes did not go unnoticed. You know who you are!