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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Organization of Conferences and Workshops
2023 Executive Committee Member and Program Chair of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2022 Executive Committee Member and Special Session/Tutorial Chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2022 PhD Forum Chair of the Design Automation Conference (DAC)
Since 2022 Vice Chair of the European Design and Automation Association
2022 Executive Committee Member and Vice Program Chair of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2021 Executive Committee Member and Workshop Chair of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2021 Executive Committee Member and PhD Forum Chair of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2020 Chair of the ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD
2020 Executive Committee Member and PhD Forum Chair of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2019 Co-Chair of the ACM Student Research Competition at ICCAD
2019 Executive Committee Member and PhD Forum Chair 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 Executive Committee Member and Special Day Chair of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
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 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 Organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Design of Microfluidic Biochips: Connecting Algorithms and Foundations of Chip Design to Biochemistry and the Life Sciences"
2012 Publicity Chair and Member of the Organizing Committee at the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL)
2011 Organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on "Design of Reversible and Quantum Circuits"
2010 Organizer of the Workshop on Reversible Computation (RC)
PC Chair
2023 Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2017 International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS)
2016 International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL)
2015 Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL)
2014 International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL)
2011 Workshop on Reversible Computation (RC)
Track/Subcommittee Chair
2023 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
(for "Emerging Devices, Technologies and Applications")
2021 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
(for "3.2 Nanoscale and Post-CMOS Systems")
2021 Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
(for "Applications of Emerging Technologies")
2021 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
(for "Emerging Technologies and Applications")
2020 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
(for "4.2 Nanoscale and Post-CMOS Systems")
2020 Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
(for "Applications of Emerging Technologies")
2020 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
(for "Emerging Technologies and Applications")
2015 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
(for "Logic/Behavioral/High-Level Synthesis and Optimization")
2014 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
(for "High-Level/Behavioral/Logic: Synthesis and Optimization")
Associate Editor
since 2018 Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
since 2018 Integration, the VLSI journal
Guest Editor
2022 Special Issue on "Design Automation for Quantum Computing" at the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
2016 Book covering selected contributions from the Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL) published at Springer
2015 Special Issue covering the Best Papers of the 44th International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic at the Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing (JMVLSC)
2015 Special Issue on "Multiple-Valued Logic and Applications" at the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS)
2014 Special Issue on "Reversible Computation" at the ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC)
2011 Special Issue on "Reversible Computation" at Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
2010 Special Issue on "Reversible Computation" at the Journal for Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing (MVLSC)
Organization of Special Sessions, Tutorials, Seminars
2022 Special Session on "Software Tools for Quantum Computing: How to Design the Next Big Thing?" at the Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2021 Panel on "Design Automation for Quantum Computing" at the Design Automation Conference (DAC)
2020 Special Session on "Realizing Quantum Algorithms on Real Quantum Computing Devices" at the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2019 Special Session on "IBM's Qiskit Tool Chain: Working with and Developing for Real Quantum Computers" at the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2018 Tutorial on "Computer-Aided Design for Quantum Computation" at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2018 Special Session on "Automatic Design of Microfluidic Devices: An Overview of Platforms and Corresponding Design Tasks" at the Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL)
2017 Tutorial/Workshop on "Networked Labs-on-Chips (NLoCs): A Passive Droplet Routing Concept for Two-Phase Flow Microfluidics" at the Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS)
2017 Tutorial on "Design Automation for Labs-on-Chip: A New Playground for SoC Designers" at the International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC)
2016 Tutorial on "From Biochips to Quantum Circuits: Computer-Aided Design for Emerging Technologies" at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2016 Tutorial on "When Embedded Systems meet Life Sciences: Microfluidic Biochips for Real-Time Healthcare" at the Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK)
2016 Special Session on "Emerging Technologies" at the International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS)
2016 Special Session on "Reversible Circuits: Design Methods for an Emerging Technology" at the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
2015 Tutorial on "Formal Methods for Emerging Technologies" at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2014 Tutorial on "Automated and Quality-driven Requirement Engineering" at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
2014 Tutorial on "The Formal Specification Level: Bridging the Gap between the Spec and its Implementation" at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
2013 Tutorial on "Design and Verification of Embedded Systems from Natural Language Descriptions" at the Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)
2013 Tutorial on "Text statt C++: Automatisierung des Systementwurfs mit Hilfe natürlicher Sprachverarbeitung" at the 43. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik (INFORMATIK 2013)
2012 Special Session on "Reversible Computation" at the International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED)
PC Member
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 & 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 & 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 Conference on IEEE 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 & 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 Conference on IEEE 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 Conference on IEEE 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 International Conference on Quantum, Nano/Bio, and Micro Technologies (ICQNM)
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 Red-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 2016 (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'16)
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 & 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
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)
Reviewer Activity (selected)
Institutions Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Expert Evaluator for the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships programme (H2020-MSCA-IF)
Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (Vienna Science and Technology Fund)
External Expert for proposals submitted to the Open Call OC-2016-1 of the EU COST Association
National Science Foundation (USA)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR France)
Publishers Springer, Wiley, CRC Press
Journals IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
ACM Computing Surveys
INTEGRATION, the VLSI Journal
Quantum Information Processing (QIP)
Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
International Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers (JCSC)
Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing (JETC)
Microelectronics Journal (MEJ)
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
and many other journals
Conferences Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)
Design Automation Conference (DAC)
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC)
Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)
Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLVLSI)
International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL)
International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design)
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign (Memocode)
International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP)
and many other conferences
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 Intiative Quantencomputing by the German Aerospace Center
since 2021 Member of the Advisory Board of Classiq Technologies (a startup working on the development of 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
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