prof.dr.ir. B.R.H.M. Haverkort (Boudewijn)

Welcome on my homepage. Since October 2024, I am Dean of the Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Twente.

From January 2019 until August 2024, I have been Dean at Tilburg University in particular of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. 

From 2003 until the end of 2018, I was full professor for Design and Analysis of Communication Systems at the University of Twente, in the faculty for Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS).

My work, both in research and teaching, focuses on the design and analysis of cyber-physical systems, that is, computer and communication systems that interact with their physical environment. Over the last few years, I have been working on themes related to security and safety of critical infrastructures, smart grids and energy storage, wearable computing systems, smart industry and energy-efficient data centers. My research is mostly funded through national (NWO) and international projects (EU).

I have always enjoyed research management and leadership. I was Head of the Department of Computer Science (May 2017--November 2018, as well as in the academic year 2008-2009) and I was chairman of the national research and innovation program Commit2Data from 2016 until the end of 2024.

I obtained my Ph.D. in 1991 and my M.Sc in 1986, both from the University of Twente. I wrote my master's thesis, in 1986, at the University of Dortmund, Germany.

Scientific Memberships and Honors

• Fellow of the IEEE (see also this Dutch wikipedia page).
• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Former member of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and board member of the GI/ITG special interest group on performance modeling of computer and communication systems.

Expertise

• Computer Science

  • Models
  • Model Checking
  • Evaluation
  • Algorithms
  • Data Center
  • Performance Evaluation
  • Workload
  • Case Study

Organisations

Ancillary activities

• Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz, Leibniz-Zentrum für InformatikChairman, Schloss Dagstuhl Publishing Advisory Board

My research focuses has always been on model-driven design of embedded computer-communication systems and the evaluation of their performance and dependability. Since 2000, I have also been working on stochastic model checking techniques. During my term as director of ESI, I have become interested in system design and engineering as a discipline, especially in relation to industrial applicability (now also addressed under the name of ‘smart industry’). Lately, I also focus more on energy systems, such as smart grids, critical infrastructures and energy-efficient data centers. Due to my role as chairman of Commit2Data, I have also been working more on big data and its applications.

I have guided numerous master students through their final project, and have had the honor of acting more than 30 times as PhD advisor (“promotor”).

I wrote a textbook on Performance Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems (Wiley, 1998), and published some 10 conference proceedings (with IEEE and Springer) and did put together multi-author books on Performability Modelling (Wiley, 2001) and on Validation of Stochastic Systems (Springer, 2003). I published over 200 papers in journals and at (full-review) conferences; see, for instance, Google scholar, or the https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/h/Haverkort:Boudewijn_R= .

I have been member of well over 100 international program committees of conferences in my field, acted as chairman of a number of international conferences (TOOLS 2001, PNPM 2001, MMB 2001, QEST 2004, DSN/PDS 2005, PDMC 2006, PDMC 2007, QEST 2015), and have edited more than 10 special issues for various journals.

Publications

Research profiles

Over the years, I have been teaching courses on Computer Networking and Model-Based Performance and Dependability Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Embedded Systems. I have also taughts courses in the Creative Technology study program; I developed the Module 8, "Data: From the Source to the Senses". In the past, at the RWTH Aachen, I also taught courses on Operating Systems, Computer Architecture and Distributed Systems, primarily for Computer Science students. In my current role as Dean, I do not actively teach.

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Address

University of Twente

Zilverling (building no. 11), room 1064
Hallenweg 19
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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