Dr.-Ing. Kuan-Hsun Chen is a tenured assistant professor in the group of Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems (CAES) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
Previously, from August 2019 to August 2021, he held a Postdoctoral position in the Design and Automation for Embedded Systems group at TU Dortmund University in Germany. He obtained his Ph.D. degree (May 2019) in Computer Science (Dr.-Ing.) from TU Dortmund University with the highest distinction (summa cum laude), under the supervision of Prof. Jian-Jia Chen. He completed his master's degree in Computer Science (2013) and his bachelor's degree in the Interdisciplinary Program of Humanities and Social Sciences (2011) at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
He currently serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, and Guest Editor for the ACM Transactions of Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) and the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). Furthermore, he has published 80+ scientific works in top peer-reviewed journals (e.g., TC, TCAD and TECS) and international conferences (e.g., EMSOFT, RTSS, RTAS, DAC, DATE). Additionally, he actively participates as a member of several Technical Program Committees (TPC) for premier conferences and contributes as a reviewer for various peer-reviewed journals and conferences in the field of computer science and engineering.
He is co-founder of the Dutch Real-Time System Community, supported by the 4TU.NIRICT community fund. Furthermore, he is also responsible for the course "Design and Implementation of Real-Time Systems", granted by the ASCI research school. Since 2024 he is a member of Young Academy Twente at UTwente. His achievements include, Outstanding Reviewer Award at CODES+ISSS'24, Best Paper Award at ECRTS’23, Best Paper nomination at DATE'21, Best Student Paper Award at RTCSA'18, and a dissertation award at TU Dortmund University (2019). Furthermore, he was granted a personal exchange project (PPP) by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and a postdoctoral fellowship by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2021.
Outside the academic pursuits, he dedicates his time to mentorship and open-source development. He has been a volunteer mentor in the ESA Summer of Code in Space (2017) and Google Summer of Code since 2016, specifically focusing on open-source development for a popular real-time operating system, RTEMS. Additionally, he is the member of HiPEAC, a network of European researchers in the field of computing systems.
Expertise
Computer Science
- Evaluation
- Non-Volatile Memory
- Application
- Real Time Systems
- Timing Analysis
- Software
- Main Memory
- Hardware
Organisations
My main research is about Embedded Real-Time Systems. In particular, I develop architecture-aware software automation and bridge the gap between theory and practice in real-time system software. The following topics are what I have worked on so far:
- Real-Time Systems
- Dependable Computing Systems
- Cyber-Physical-Systems and Resource Management
- Hardware Software Co-design
- Emerging Computing Technologies
I have also served on several technical program committees (TPC) and organization teams:
- Ph.D. forum at CPS-IoT Week - Co-Chair (2025)
- ACM/USENIX/IFIP Middleware Conference - TPC (2024)
- ACM/IEEE Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) - TPC for A1"Power-efficient and sustainable computing" (2025, 2024)
- Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) - TPC (2025, 2024, 2023)
- Real-time And intelliGent Edge computing workshop (RAGE) - TPC (2024)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) - TPC (2024, 2023)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS) - Submission Chair / TPC (2024), TPC (2023)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES) - TPC (2024)
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Design - TPC for Computer Systems Track (2023)
- International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology (DFTS) - TPC (2024, 2023)
- ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD) - TPC (2024)
- Workshop on Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD) - TPC (2023, 2022, 2020)
- IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) - TPC for 2025, Applied Methodologies and Foundations (2024), Web Chair (2025, 2024), TPC for Systems and Applications Track (2023), Session Chair (2023)
- Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS) - Publicity Chair /Artifact Evaluation TPC (2024), Social Media Chair (2023), Session Chair (2022)
- IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) - TPC for Design and Applications Track and Web Chair (2024), Artifact Evaluation TPC (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021), Multimedia Chair (2021), Session Chair (2021), TPC (2021)
- IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA) - TPC (2024)
- International Conference on Real-Time and Network Systems (RTNS) - Multimedia Chair (2023)
- IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) - TPC for Real-Time Systems Track (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)
- IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, & Analytics (HiPC) - TPC (2022)
- IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium Brief-Presentation - TPC (2020)
- Junior Researcher Workshop on Real-Time Computing - TPC (2020)
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) - TPC (2024, 2022)
transactions and journals:
- IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine - Associate Editor
- Integrated Circuits and VLSI, specialty section of Frontiers in Electronics - Review Editor
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems - Guest Editor for "In/Near Memory and Storage Computing for Embedded Systems"
- ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems - Guest Editor for "Fault Resilient CPS"
- Applied Computing and Intelligence - Associate Editor
- Journal of Signal Processing Systems - Guest Editor
and in the following venues as a reviewer or a sub-reviewer, including but not limited to:
- Springer Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems (TIME)
- Springer Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA)
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
- ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES)
- ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS)
- ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT)
- IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC)
- IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)
- IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)
- IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL)
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (Thematic Section)
- IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)
- IEEE Transactions on Reliability (TR)
- IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- International Conference on Real-Time and Network Systems (RTNS)
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
Since 2016 I am also a mentor in Google Summer of Code for RTEMS. In case you are interested in the development of open-source RTOS, feel free to contact me.
Publications
2024
Research profiles
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2024/2025
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.
- 191211208 - Internship EE
- 191211219 - Master Thesis Project
- 191211650 - Multi-Disciplinary Design Project
- 192199508 - Research Topics CS
- 192199968 - Internship CS
- 192199978 - Final Project CS
- 201000231 - Computer Arithmetic
- 201300086 - Research Topics 2 CS
- 201400171 - Capita Selecta Software Technology
- 201500051 - Self-tuition Project Pre Masters EmSys
- 201800106 - Logic and Set Theory
- 201800524 - Research Topics EIT
- 201900223 - Capita Selecta Electrical Engineering
- 202001123 - Programming in C
- 202001162 - Bachelor Thesis EE
- 202001434 - Internship EMSYS
- 202001613 - MSc Final Project BIT + CS
- 202100254 - Complex System Design
- 202200166 - Operating Systems
- 202200251 - Capita Selecta DST
- 202300070 - Final Project EMSYS
Courses academic year 2023/2024
- 191211208 - Internship EE
- 191211219 - Master Thesis Project
- 191211650 - Multi-Disciplinary Design Project
- 192199508 - Research Topics CS
- 192199968 - Internship CS
- 192199978 - Final Project CS
- 201000231 - Computer Arithmetic
- 201300086 - Research Topics 2 CS
- 201400171 - Capita Selecta Software Technology
- 201500051 - Self-tuition Project Pre Masters-EMSYS
- 201600017 - Final Project Preparation
- 201800106 - Logic and Set Theory
- 201800524 - Research Topics EIT
- 201900200 - Final Project EMSYS
- 201900223 - Capita Selecta Electrical Engineering
- 202001123 - Programming in C
- 202001162 - Bachelor Thesis EE
- 202001434 - Internship EMSYS
- 202001444 - Placement Course for Exchange EEMCS
- 202001613 - MSc Final Project BIT + CS
- 202001614 - MSc Final Project CS + I-Tech
- 202001616 - Research Topics CS + I-TECH
- 202100254 - Complex System Design
- 202200166 - Operating Systems
- 202200251 - Capita Selecta DST
- 202300070 - Final Project EMSYS
- Panellist at "2024 NSTC Biomedicine and Precision Medicine Workshop in the Netherlands" for "How to Enhance The Research cooperation between Taiwan and the Netherlands/European Countries: Perspectives from Young Scholars"
- Panel moderator at "3rd European-Taiwanese Conference for Science and Technology" in 2024 for "Career Changes and Paths – inside Europe"
- Interview for "European-based Academic career track & experience sharing" by European-Taiwanese Association for Science and Technology (ETAST)
- Panellist at "2nd European-Taiwanese Conference for Science and Technology" in 2023 for "Academia in Europe"
- Invited Talk "Opportunistic Soft-Error Handling" at NTUST in 2023
- Invited Talk "Memory-Centric Embedded System Designs" at NYCU in 2023
- Invited Talk "Efficient Support of Decision Tree Models on Embedded Systems" at NTHU in 2023
- Keynote at "The 28th Workshop on Compiler Techniques and System Software for High-Performance and Embedding Computing" in 2023
- Invited Talk at "Taiwan NSTC and Germany DAAD Joint Workshop on Compilers and Embedded Designs" in 2022
- Invited Talk "Doing UTQ as Doing Research" at UTQ Ceremony in 2022
- Invited Talk at Workshop "Taiwan NSTC and Germany DAAD joint workshop" in 2022
- Dutch Real-Time Systems Community (funded by 4TU.NIRICT) in 2022
- Promotion by ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) on "Who's who" on May 1st, 2022.
- Invited Lecture at Conference "Taiwan Elite in DACH-region on Advanced Engineering and Biomedical Technologies" in 2021
- Invited Talk at Workshop "Diskussionskreis Fehlertoleranz" in 2019
Address
University of Twente
Zilverling (building no. 11), room 5037
Hallenweg 19
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Zilverling 5037
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands
Organisations
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