Prof. Dr. Robert Wille
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Robert Wille is a Full and Distinguished Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Chief Scientific Officer at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Austria.
From 2002 to 2006, Robert Wille studied Computer Science (Diploma) at the University of Bremen. After successfully completing his doctorate in 2009 (summa cum laude), he worked as postdoc at the University of Bremen and, since 2013, as Senior Researcher in the Cyber-Physical Systems department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Besides that, he served as lecturer at the University of Applied Science Bremen from 2010 to 2012 and was guest professor at the University of Potsdam in 2012 as well as the Technical University of Dresden in 2013/2014. From 2015 to 2022, he was Full Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and head of the Institute for Integrated Circuits (at the age of 32 and as one of the youngest full professors in the field). In 2019, he founded the LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab at JKU and, in 2020, he additionally became Chief Scientific Officer at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH. Since 2022, he works in Munich—appointed through a “Leuchtturm”-procedure (i.e., direct appointment) and, additionally, through the “Distinguished Professorship”-program.
Robert Wille’s expertise covers a broad spectrum of topics with a particular focus on the development of automatic methods for the design, simulation, verification, and test of complex systems in hard- and software. He considers conventional technologies (from formal specifications to the realization) as well as future technologies (including quantum computing, microfluidic biochips, field-coupled nanotechnologies, optical circuits, memristors, reversible circuits, and adiabatic circuits).
Besides that, he frequently applies his expertise to complementary fields in cooperation with groups from other areas of Computer Science (e.g., Machine Learning, Software Development, Theoretical Computer Science, Database Systems, Operation Systems, and more) as well as Mechatronics and Electrical Engineering. Furthermore, his work on future technologies frequently exposes him to topics from physics, biology, chemistry, and optics. Also projects with legal sciences are within his portfolio.
Since 2007, Robert Wille published more than 400 journal and conference papers in this area and was repeatedly awarded (e.g., with Best Paper Awards, e.g., at TCAD and ICCAD, an ERC Consolidator Grant, a Distinguished Professor appointment, a Google Research Award, and more). Besides that, he served as Associate Editor and Guest Editor for various renowned journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC), or Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Additionally, he was General Chair and PC Chair for several conferences, is Executive Committee Member for DATE and ICCAD, served in numerous Program Committees, and organized several tutorials, seminars, workshops, and special sessions.
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| Nationality | German |
| Date of birth | November 11th, 1982 |
| Home Address | Teerhof 48 28199 Bremen, Germany +49 176 23 44 09 64 mail@rwille.de |
| Office Address | Technical University of Munich Chair for Design Automation Arcisstraße 21 80333 Munich, Germany +49 176 23 44 09 64 robert.wille@tum.de |
| Languages | German (native) English (fluent) |
Highlights
For an overview of our work over the past three years at the Technical University of Munich, please see
our Three-Year Annual Report.
Career Path
| since 2025 | Founder and CEO of the Munich Quantum Software Company (MQSC), Germany |
| since 2025 | Scientific Director for Quantum Computing of the Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH (SCCH), Austria |
| since 2022 | Full and Distinguished Professor at the Technical University of Munich, Germany (appointed through a “Leuchtturm”-procedure, i.e., direct appointment and supported by the “Distinguished Professorship” program) |
| 2020-2025 | Chief Scientific Officer of the Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH (SCCH), Austria |
| 2019-2022 | Head of the “LIT Secure and Correct Systems Lab” (composing the expertise of over ten institutes) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria |
| 2015-2022 | Full Professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria |
| 2013-2014 | Visiting Professor at the Technical University Dresden, Germany |
| 2013-2022 | Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Bremen, Germany |
| 2012 | Visiting Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany |
| 2010-2012 | Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen, Germany |
| 2009-2015 | Postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany |
| 2006-2009 | Doctoral candidate (Scholarship Holder) at the “Graduate School Embedded Systems”, University of Bremen, Germany |
Scientific Education
| 2014 | Habilitation Title: “Design of Circuits and Systems: Today and Tomorrow“ |
| 2009 | Dissertation Title: “Towards a Design Flow for Reversible Logic“ Degree: Dr.-Ing. (Grade: summa cum laude) Awarded the “Bremer Studienpreis” (Bremen Study Award) and finalist of the “GI-Dissertationspreis” (thesis award of the German Informatics Society) |
| 2006 | Diploma thesis Title: “Erstellung von Free Binary Decision Diagrams mit SAT-Beweisern“ (English: “Building Free Binary Decision Diagrams Using SAT Solvers”; Grade: 1,0) Degree: Diploma (Grade: 1,0) |
| 2002-2006 | Student of computer science (Diploma) at the University of Bremen, Germany |
School Education and Civilian Service
| 2001- 2002 |
Civilian Service at the CJD Berufsbildungswerk Gera e.V., Germany |
| 1993- 2001 |
“Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg” Gymnasium (Secondary School), Gera, Germany Degree: Abitur (High School Diploma; Grade: 1,5) |
| 1989- 1993 |
Elementary School, Gera, German |
Further Work Experience
| 2003-2006 | Student assistant at the University of Bremen for exercise courses on Technical Computer Science and Theoretical Computer Science |
| 2004-2006 | Freelancer of Electronic Arts Germany, Cologne |
| 2006 | Student assistant at the Group of Computer Architecture at the University of Bremen |
Organization of Conferences, Workshops, etc.
| 2026 | Vice General Chair and Executive Committee Member for the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2025 | General Chair and Executive Committee Member for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2025 | Workshop Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) |
| 2024-2025 | Chair of the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA, the organization responsible for the Design, Automation & Test in Europe, DATE) |
| 2024 | Workshop Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) |
| 2024 | Program Chair and Executive Committee Member for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2023 | Program Chair and Executive Committee Member for the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2023 | Vice Program Chair and Executive Committee Member for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| since 2023 | Founder and Organizer of the Munich Quantum Software Forum (MQSF) |
| 2022 | Vice Program Chair and Executive Committee Member for the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2022 | Special Session/Tutorial Chair and Executive Committee Member for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2022 | PhD Forum Chair of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) |
| 2022-2023 | Vice Chair of the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA, the organization responsible for the Design, Automation & Test in Europe, DATE) |
| 2021 | Workshop Chair and Executive Committee Member for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2021 | Track Chair for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) (for “3.2 Nanoscale and Post-CMOS Systems”) |
| 2021 | Topic Chair for the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (for “Applications of Emerging Technologies”) |
| 2021 | Track Chair for the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) (for “Emerging Technologies and Applications”) |
| 2020 | Track Chair for the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) (for “4.2 Nanoscale and Post-CMOS Systems”) |
| 2020 | Topic Chair for the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) (for “Applications of Emerging Technologies”) |
| 2020 | Track Chair for the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) (for “Emerging Technologies and Applications”) |
| 2019-2021 | PhD Forum Chair of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2019-2020 | Co-Chair of the ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD |
| 2018-2022 | Executive Committee Member of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2018 | General Chair of the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2018 | General Chair of the International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2018 | Special Day Chair of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2018-2019 | TC Chair of the IEEE Multiple-Valued Logic Technical Committee |
| 2017 | Program Chair for the International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2017 | Publication Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Summer Simulation Multi-Conference (SummerSim’17) |
| 2017 | Organizer of the NII Shonan Meeting on “Microfluidic Biochips: Bridging Biochemistry with Computer Science and Engineering” |
| 2016 | Publicity Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee for the International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT) |
| 2016 | Vice Chair of the Multiple-Valued Logic Technical Committee of the IEEE Computer Society |
| 2016 | General Chair of the Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL) |
| 2016 | Program Chair for the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2016 | Special Sessions Co-Chair at the International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2016 | Publicity Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee for the International Conference on VLSI Design and the International Conference on Embedded Systems |
| 2015 | Program Chair for the Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL) |
| 2015 | Track Chair for the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) (for “Logic/Behavioral/High-Level Synthesis and Optimization”) |
| 2015 | Organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on “Design of Microfluidic Biochips: Connecting Algorithms and Foundations of Chip Design to Biochemistry and the Life Sciences” |
| 2014 | Program Chair for the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2014 | Track Chair for the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) (for “High-Level/Behavioral/Logic: Synthesis and Optimization”) |
| 2012 | Publicity Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee at the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2011 | Program Chair for the Workshop on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2011 | Organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on “Design of Reversible and Quantum Circuits” |
| 2010 | Organizer of the Workshop on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2009-2012 | Member at Large of the IEEE Multiple-Valued Logic Technical Committee |
Associate Editor
| since 2022 | IEEE Design & Test |
| since 2018 | Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) |
| since 2018 | Integration, the VLSI journal |
PC Member
| 2026 | Technical Papers Program Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) |
| 2026 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW) |
| 2026 | Technical Program Committee for the International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2026 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2026 | International Workshop on Quantum Software-Engineering Tools, Algorithms and Verification (Q-STAV) |
| 2026 | International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE) |
| 2025 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE) |
| 2025 | Workshop on Quantum Software (WQS) |
| 2025 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2025 | International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2025 | International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE) |
| 2025 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW) |
| 2025 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2025 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2025 | Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2025 | Quantum Software Engineering MeetUp (QSE) |
| 2024 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2024 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE) |
| 2024 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW) |
| 2024 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2024 | International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2024 | Workshop on Quantum Software (WQS) |
| 2024 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2024 | Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2023 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE) |
| 2023 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW) |
| 2023 | International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2023 | International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) |
| 2023 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2023 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2023 | Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) |
| 2023 | International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) |
| 2023 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2022 | International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP) |
| 2022 | International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) |
| 2022 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE) |
| 2022 | Computing Frontiers Conference (CF) |
| 2022 | Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Test and Reliability (IMTR) |
| 2022 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW) |
| 2022 | International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2022 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2022 | European Test Symposium (ETS) |
| 2022 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2022 | Workshop on Quantum Software Architecture (QSA) |
| 2022 | International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) |
| 2022 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2021 | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing (QCE) |
| 2021 | IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC) |
| 2021 | International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) |
| 2021 | International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2021 | International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2021 | International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI SoC) |
| 2021 | Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) |
| 2021 | International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE) |
| 2021 | Computing Frontiers Conference (CF) |
| 2021 | Reed Muller Workshop |
| 2021 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2021 | International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) |
| 2021 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2021 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2021 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2021 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2020 | International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) |
| 2020 | International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2020 | International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD) |
| 2020 | International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP) |
| 2020 | International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2020 | International Symposium on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ISDCS) |
| 2020 | International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI SoC) |
| 2020 | International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) |
| 2020 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2020 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2020 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2020 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2020 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2019 | International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2019 | Tutorials and Special Sessions at ICCAD |
| 2019 | International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) |
| 2019 | Workshop on Synthesis and System Integration of Mixed Information Technologies (SASIMI) |
| 2019 | International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC) |
| 2019 | Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2019 | Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) |
| 2019 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2019 | International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) |
| 2019 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2019 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2019 | Reed Muller Workshop (RM) |
| 2019 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2018 | ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD |
| 2018 | Tutorials and Special Sessions at ICCAD |
| 2018 | Austrian Workshop on Microelectronics (Austrochip) |
| 2018 | International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SOC) |
| 2018 | International Symposium on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ISDCS) |
| 2018 | International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) |
| 2018 | Design Automation Conference (DAC) |
| 2018 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2018 | Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) |
| 2018 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2018 | International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) |
| 2018 | Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) |
| 2018 | International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID 2018) |
| 2018 | Conference on Algorithms and Applications (ALAP) |
| 2018 | Workshop on Synthesis and System Integration of Mixed Information Technologies (SASIMI) |
| 2018 | International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWBP) |
| 2018 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2017 | ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD |
| 2017 | International Symposium on Embedded Computing and System Design (ISED) |
| 2017 | Austrian Workshop on Microelectronics (Austrochip) |
| 2017 | International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT) |
| 2017 | International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT) |
| 2017 | Workshop on Advances in IoT Architecture and Systems (AIoTAS) |
| 2017 | International Conference on Advances in Circuits, Electronics and Micro-electronics (CENICS) |
| 2017 | Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC) |
| 2017 | IEEE International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HDLVT) |
| 2017 | Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI) |
| 2017 | Reed-Muller Workshop |
| 2017 | Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC) |
| 2017 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2017 | Design Automation Conference (DAC) |
| 2017 | International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2017 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2017 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2016 | International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT) |
| 2016 | ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD |
| 2016 | Workshop on Synthesis and System Integration of Mixed Information Technologies (SASIMI) |
| 2016 | Summer Computer Simulation Conference (SCSC) |
| 2016 | International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWBP) |
| 2016 | International Symposium on Embedded Computing and System Design (ISED) |
| 2016 | Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2016 | International Conference on Advances in Circuits, Electronics and Micro-electronics (CENICS) |
| 2016 | Summer Simulation Multi-Conference (SummerSim 2016) |
| 2016 | International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle (VALID) |
| 2016 | The International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization (MODOPT) |
| 2016 | Design Automation Conference (DAC) |
| 2016 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2016 | Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2016 | PhD Forum at DATE |
| 2016 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2015 | International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED) |
| 2015 | International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2015 | ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD |
| 2015 | International Workshop on Constraints in Formal Verification (CFV) |
| 2015 | International Conference on Advances in Circuits, Electronics and Micro-electronics (CENICS) |
| 2015 | Summer Simulation Multi-Conference (SummerSim) |
| 2015 | Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL) |
| 2015 | Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2015 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2015 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2015 | PhD Forum at DATE |
| 2015 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2015 | International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design) |
| 2015 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2014 | International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED) |
| 2014 | International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2014 | ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD |
| 2014 | International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP) |
| 2014 | Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2014 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2014 | GI/ITG/GMM Workshop Methoden und Beschreibungssprachen zur Modellierung und Verifikation von Schaltungen und Systemen (MBMV) |
| 2014 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2014 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2014 | International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design) |
| 2013 | International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2013 | Conference on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2013 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2013 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2013 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2012 | Workshop on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2012 | International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL) |
| 2012 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2012 | Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2011 | Workshop on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2011 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2010 | Workshop on Reversible Computation (RC) |
| 2010 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2009 | Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) |
| 2008 | International Workshop on Boolean Problems (IWSBP) |
Jury Member
| 2025 | ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award (OPDA) |
| 2022 | Grand Finals of the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) |
| 2021 | Grand Finals of the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) |
| 2021 | EDAA PhD Outstanding Dissertation Award |
| 2019 | Chair of the Selection Committee for the ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award |
| 2019 | ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award |
| 2018 | ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award |
| 2017 | ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award |
| 2016 | ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award |
| 2013 | Best Paper Award Committee: Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
Miscellaneous
| since 2022 | Member of the IFIP Working Group on Foundations of Quantum Computation |
| since 2022 | Future Panel Upper Austria — a think tank for the Upper Austrian government |
| since 2022 | Deputy Speaker of the Working Group Quantencomputing of the German Informatics Society |
| since 2021 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Initiative Quantencomputing by the German Aerospace Center |
| since 2021 | Member of the Advisory Board of https://www.classiq.io/ (a startup working on software for quantum computing) |
| 2021 | Member of the Concept Group for the “University of Technology for Digitalisation and Digital Transformation in Upper Austria” |
| 2018-2019 | TC Chair of the IEEE Multiple-Valued Logic Technical Committee |
| 2009-2012 | Member at Large of the IEEE Multiple-Valued Logic Technical Committee |
| 2009 | Involved in the organization of the Dagstuhl Seminar “Algorithms and Applications for Next Generation SAT Solvers” (organized by Prof. Dr. Bernd Becker, Prof. Valeria Bertacco, Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler, and Prof. Masahiro Fujita) |
| 2009 | Involved in the organization of the 21. Workshop Testmethoden und Zuverlässigkeit von Schaltungen und Systemen (TuZ) (organized by Prof. Dr. R. Drechsler) |
Service at Universities
| Continuously | Member of numerous Appointment/Promotion Committees, Study Committees, and further committees at various universities |
| since 2022 | Vice Dean for Research and Innovation and Member of the Executive Board of the School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich |
| since 2018 | Deputy Speaker of the Department of Computer Science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| since 2018 | Member of the Study Commission for Computer Science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| 2011-2012 | Exzellenzinitiative des Bundes und der Länder zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung an deutschen Hochschulen — Member of the Preparation Team for the University of Bremen |
| 2009-2015 | Scientific communication in the Group of Computer Architecture (semi-annual newsletters, press releases, etc.) |
| 2007-… | Member and Deputy Member of various appointment committees and postdoctoral lecture qualification committees in several universities |
| 2007-2014 | Member of the Faculty Council of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bremen |
| 2005-2006 | Member of the Student Representation for Computer Science at the University of Bremen |
| 2005-2006 | Member of the Computer Science Committee at the University of Bremen |
Research Awards and Nominations
| 2025 | Best Student Paper Award (1st Place) at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) |
| 2025 | Best Paper Award (2nd Place) at the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) |
| 2025 | Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO) |
| 2025 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the IEEE CASS Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS) |
| 2025 | 10-year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award from the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) 2015 |
| 2024 | Best Paper Award (3rd Place) from the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) |
| 2024 | Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW) |
| 2023 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS) |
| 2023 | Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design) |
| 2023 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2022 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference |
| 2022 | 10-year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award from the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2021 | Runner up for the Applied NISQ Computing Paper Award at the Q2B Conference |
| 2021 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference |
| 2021 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2020 | ERC Consolidator Grant |
| 2020 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award from the Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD) |
| 2020 | Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) |
| 2020 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) |
| 2019 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2019 | 3rd Place in the IBM Quantum Challenge |
| 2019 | Best Research Demo Award at the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) |
| 2019 | Under-40 Innovators Award |
| 2019 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference |
| 2019 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2018 | Winner of the IBM Qiskit Developer Challenge |
| 2018 | Google Research Award |
| 2017 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) |
| 2014 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL) |
| 2014 | Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) |
| 2013 | Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) |
| 2010 | Best Paper Award from the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL) |
| 2010 | Bremen Study Award (for the dissertation) |
| 2010 | Finalist at the Best Computer Science Thesis Award 2009 by the German Informatics Society (GI), the Swiss Informatics Society (SI), the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), and the German Chapter of the ACM |
| 2010 | Finalist at the ACM Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation |
| 2010 | Finalist at the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award |
| 2008 | Young Researchers Award from the IEEE International Symposium |
Teaching Awards
| 2024 | TeachInf Award for the best mandatory Computer Science lecture in the winter semester 2023/2024 at the Technical University of Munich |
| 2023 | TeachInf Award for the best mandatory Computer Science lecture in the winter semester 2022/2023 at the Technical University of Munich |
| 2023 | Lecturer Prize for the best lecture in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in the winter semester 2022/2023 at the Technical University of Munich |
| 2020 | Vote Your Prof by 1st Place awarded to Robert Wille for exceptional performance in teaching at the Johannes Kepler University |
| 2015 | Nominated for the Berninghausen Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Bremen |
Service Award
| 2023 | ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Award |
Awards to Ph.D. Students
| 2025 | Student Design Competition Winner at the IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO) awarded to Jan Drewniok |
| 2025 | P.O. Pistilli DAC Ambassador Award awarded to Laura S. Herzog at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2025 |
| 2025 | 2nd Place Achievement at the 13th NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good for the team mentored by Nils Quetschlich |
| 2025 | EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award given by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) awarded to Lukas Burgholzer |
| 2025 | Best Poster Award for the PhD Forum presentation at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference awarded to Jan Drewniok |
| 2024 | Best Poster Award from the US Quantum Information Science Summer School 2024 awarded to Kevin Mato |
| 2024 | Best Presentation Award from the IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO) awarded to Marcel Walter |
| 2024 | Best Poster Award from the International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS) awarded to Max Sponner |
| 2024 | Unitary Fund Grant awarded to Kevin Mato |
| 2024 | ACM SIGDA Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) awarded to Lukas Burgholzer |
| 2024 | Heinz Zemanek Award given by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) awarded to Lukas Burgholzer |
| 2024 | Best Poster Award from the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference awarded to Lukas Burgholzer |
| 2023 | Audience Choice Award for the team working on early detection of Alzheimer’s disease co-mentored by Stefan Hillmich |
| 2023 | Best Poster Award for Sarah Seifi |
| 2022 | DAC Young Fellow Best Video Award awarded to Stefan Hillmich |
| 2022 | Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae (Award from the President of Austria) awarded to Alwin Zulehner |
| 2022 | JKU Early Research Achievement Award awarded to Lukas Burgholzer |
| 2021 | JKU Early Research Achievement Award awarded to Kevin Verma |
| 2020 | Best Poster Award for the PhD Forum presentation at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) awarded to Stefan Hillmich |
| 2020 | Heinz Zemanek Award given by the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) awarded to Alwin Zulehner |
| 2020 | EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award given by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) awarded to Alwin Zulehner |
| 2019 | Award of Excellence given by the Austrian Ministry of Education awarded to Andreas Grimmer |
| 2019 | Winner of SRC@ICCAD by the ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD awarded to Stefan Hillmich |
| 2019 | KlarText Preis given by the Klaus Tschira Foundation awarded to Andreas Grimmer |
| 2019 | JKU Early Research Achievement Award awarded to Andreas Grimmer |
| 2019 | JKU Early Research Achievement Award awarded to Alwin Zulehner |
| 2019 | Best Poster Award for the PhD Forum presentation at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) awarded to Alwin Zulehner |
| 2019 | Best Poster Award for the PhD Forum presentation at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference awarded to Andreas Grimmer |
| 2019 | Best Poster Award for the PhD Forum presentation at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) awarded to Alwin Zulehner |
| 2018 | UBIT Award given by the Upper Austrian Economic Chamber awarded to Berislav Klepic |
| 2018 | OCG Incentive Award awarded to Andreas Grimmer |
| 2017 | Best Poster Award for the PhD Forum presentation at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference awarded to Philipp Niemann |