Contact

Technical University of Munich
School of Computation, Information and Technology
Chair for Design Automation
Prof. Dr. Robert Wille
Arcisstrasse 21
80333 Munich | Germany
robert.wille@tum.de
Tel: +49 89 289 23551

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The Chair for Design Automation is supported by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Arts through the Distinguished Professorship Program.

Der Lehrstuhl für Design Automation wird durch das Bayerische Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst im Rahmen des Spitzenprofessurenprogramms gefördert.

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Awards and Nominations
2023 ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Award (for "leading positions in major ACM SIGDA conferences")
2023 TeachInf Award for the best mandatory Computer Science lecture in the winter semester 2022/2023 at the Technical University of Munich
2023 Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS) for the paper “Technology Mapping for Beyond-CMOS Circuitry with Unconventional Cost Functions“
2023 Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) conference for the paper “A SAT Encoding for Optimal Clifford Circuit Synthesis“
2022 Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) for the paper “Comprehensive and Accessible Channel Routing for Microfluidic Devices”
2022 10-year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) for the paper “Synthesis of Reversible Circuits with Minimal Lines for Large Functions”
2021 Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) for the paper "As Accurate as Needed, as Efficient as Possible: Approximations in DD-based Quantum Circuit Simulation"
2021 Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) for the paper "One-Pass Synthesis for Field-coupled Nanocomputing Technologies"
2020 ERC Consolidator Grant
2020 1st place in the "Vote Your Prof"-competition for exceptional performance in teaching at JKU
2020 Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD) for the paper "Cost Optimization at Early Stages of Design Using Deep Reinforcement Learning"
2020 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems for the paper "An Efficient Methodology for Mapping Quantum Circuits to the IBM QX Architectures"
2020 Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) for the paper “Bail on Balancing: An Alternative Approach to the Physical Design of Field-coupled Nanocomputing Circuits”
2019 3rd Place in the IBM Quantum Challenge 2019
2019 Best Research Demo Award from the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI)
2019Under-40 Innovators Award from the Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2019Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
for the paper "Better Late Than Never: Verification of Embedded Systems After Deployment"
2019Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
for the paper "A Staircase Structure for Scalable and Efficient Synthesis of Memristor-Aided Logic"
2018Winner of the IBM QISKit Developer Challenge
2018Google Research Award for our work on simulation of quantum computations
2017Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC)
for the paper "Advanced Load Balancing for SPH Simulations on Multi-GPU Architectures"
2015Nominated for the "Berninghausen-Preis für hervorragende Lehre"
2014Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL)
for the paper "Automatic Refinement Checking for Formal System Models"
2014Candidate for the Best Paper Award at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
for the paper "Efficient Synthesis of Quantum Circuits Implementing Clifford Group Operations"
2013Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
for the paper "Improved SAT-based ATPG: More Constraints, Better Compaction"
2011Nominated for the "Berninghausen-Preis für hervorragende Lehre"
2010"Best Paper Award" from the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL)
for the paper "SyReC: A Programming Language for Synthesis of Reversible Circuits"
2010Bremen Study Award (for the dissertation)
2010Finalist 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
2010Finalist 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 on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL)
2001Highschool Award by the Mayor of the City of Gera
Awards by Students
2023 Audience Choice Award for a team co-mentored by Stefan Hillmich at the NYUAD Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World
2023 Best Poster Award (for the presentation on "Detection of Sensor-To-Sensor Variations Using Explainable AI" presented at the Smart Systems Integration Conference by Sarah Seifi)
2023 Best Student Paper Award (for the paper "Automatic Implementation and Evaluation of Error-Correcting Codes for Quantum Computing: An Open-Source Framework for Quantum Error Correction" published at VLSI Design by Thomas Grurl)
2022 DAC Young Fellow Best Video Award (awarded to Stefan Hillmich)
2022 Promotio sub auspiciis Praesidentis rei publicae (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 Young Student Fellow Program presentation at DAC awarded to Stefan Hillmich)
2020 Heinz Zemanek Preis (given by the Österreichische Computergesellschaft (ÖCG)) for the dissertation to Alwin Zulehner)
2020 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award (given by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA)) for the dissertation to Alwin Zulehner)
2019 Award of Excellence (given by the Austrian Ministry of Education for the dissertation to Andreas Grimmer)
2019 Winner of the ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD (awarded to Stefan Hillmich)
2019 KlarText Preis (awarded to Andreas Grimmer)
2019 JKU Early Research Achievement Award (awarded to Alwin Zulehner)
2019 JKU Early Research Achievement Award (awarded to Andreas Grimmer)
2019 Best Poster Award (for the PhD Forum presentation at DAC awarded to Alwin Zulehner)
2019 Best Poster Award (for the PhD Forum presentation at DATE awarded to Andreas Grimmer)
2019 Best Poster Award (for the PhD Forum presentation at ASP-DAC awarded to Alwin Zulehner)
2018 UBIT Award (given by the Upper Austrian Economic Chamber to Berislav Klepic)
2018 OCG Incentive Award (awarded to Andreas Grimmer)
2017 Best Poster Award (for the PhD Forum presentation at DATE awarded to Philipp Niemann)
Memberships in Professional Societies
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
European Design and Automation Association (EDAA)
Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Computer Science Society)
Österreichische Geschellschaft für Informatik (Austrian Computer Science Society)
Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE)
Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
Published Software
2022 MQT Bench: Benchmarking Software and Design Automation Tools for Quantum Computing (available at https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/mqtbench/)
2018 Simulation approach for droplet microfluidics (available at https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/research/microfluidics_simulation/)
2018 Automatic approach for the mapping of quantum circuits to IBM QX Architectures (available at https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/research/ibm_qx_mapping/)
2018 Automatic approach for a sound valve control for Programmable Microfluidic Devices (available at https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/research/pmd/)
2017 One-pass design solution for reversible circuits (available at https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/research/one_pass_design_of_reversible_circuits/)
2017 Quantum Simulator (available at https://www.cda.cit.tum.de/quantum_simulation)
2017 Tagged BDDs: Combining Reduction Rules from Different Decision Diagram Types (available at fmv.jku.at/tbdd)
2016 QMDD - a Decision Diagram Package for the Efficient Representation and Manipulation of Quantum Functionality (available at informatik.uni-bremen.de/agra/eng/qmdd.php)
2014RevVis: Toolkit for the visualization of structures and properties in reversible circuits
(available at informatik.uni-bremen.de/agra/eng/revvis.php)
2010RevKit: Toolkit for reversible circuit design
(available at www.revkit.org)
2008SWORD: Satisfiability solver (SMT-solver) for the QF_BV-logic (available at informatik.uni-bremen.de/agra/eng/sword.php)
2008RevLib: Online-database for benchmarks within the domain of reversible and quantum circuit design (available at www.revlib.org)