Zilverling

dr.ing. K.H. Chen (Kuan)

Assistant Professor
EEMCS-CS-CAES
Zilverling 5037
k.h.chen@utwente.nl
+31534891926
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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. 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 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, Best Paper Nomination at Euro-Par'25, Outstanding Reviewer Award at CODES+ISSS'24, Best Paper Award at ECRTS’23, Best Paper Nomination at DATE'21, 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

    • Non-Volatile Memory
    • Evaluation
    • Real Time Systems
    • Application
    • Timing Analysis
    • Software
    • Main Memory
    • Hardware

Organisations

My main research centres on Dependable Embedded Computing Systems. In particular, I develop architecture-aware software automation and bridge the gap between theory and practice in real-time system software. Particularly, the following topics are what I have worked on so far:

  • Embedded Real-Time Systems
  • Dependable Computing Systems
  • Hardware Software Co-design
  • Emerging Computing and Memory Technologies

Conference and Workshop chairing

  • Workshop Chair of IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2026
  • Chair of Junior Researcher Workshop on Real-Time Computing (JRWRTC), 2025
  • General Chair of International Workshop on Embedded Multicore Systems (ICPP-EMS), 2025
  • Track Chair for "Software Architectures, Compilers, and Tool Chains (SwArch)" of IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2025
  • Co-Chair of Ph.D. forum at CPS-IoT Week, 2025
  • Chair and Co-Chair of Annual workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time applications (OSPERT), 2025-2024
  • Co-Chair for the "AI/ML New Trends Special Day" at ACM/IEEE Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), 2025

Conference Organization

Technical Program Committees (TPC)

Editorial Services for Transactions and Journals

Peer Reviewer / Sub-Reviewer

  • 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)
  • ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS)
  • 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 Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability (TDMR)
  • IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)

Volunteer and ancillary Activities

Since 2016 I am committed to mentorship, engaging in programs such as Google Summer of Code and ESA Space Summer of Code for RTEMS. In case you are interested in the development of open-source RTOS, feel free to contact me. During my free time, I also provide technical consultancy services to an indie game design studio.

Publications

2026

Reducing Compute Waste in LLMs through Kernel-Level DVFS (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Spaan, J., Chen, K.-H. & Varbanescu, A.-L.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.08539Wedge-Parallel Triangle Counting for GPUs (2026)In Euro-Par 2025: Parallel Processing - 31st European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 3-17) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15902). Springer. Spaan, J., Chen, K.-H., Bader, D. A. & Varbanescu, A.-L.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99872-0_1

2025

LazyTick: Lazy and Efficient Management of Job Release in Real-Time Operating Systems (2025)ACM transactions on embedded computing systems, 24(5), 1-25. Article 142. Heider, K., Hakert, C., Chen, K.-H. & Chen, J.-J.https://doi.org/10.1145/3762651Bloom Filters for Soft Error Detection: Neutron and Fault Injection Validation (2025)In 2025 IEEE 31st International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS). Cishugi, E. S., Smit, T. T., Endres Forlin, B., Cazzaniga, C., Chen, K.-H. & Ottavi, M.https://doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS65288.2025.11116913Theoretical Foundations of Utility Accrual for Real-Time Systems (2025)In 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, ECRTS 2025. Article 17 (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs; Vol. 335). Dagstuhl. Chen, J. J., Shi, J., Günzel, M., von der Brüggen, G., Chen, K. H. & Bella, P.https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2025.17Optimizing Electric Vehicle Scheduling with Charging Guarantees using Flow Models with Local Penalties (2025)In E-Energy '25: Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (pp. 305-316). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Winschermann, L., Günzel, M., Chen, K.-H. & Hurink, J.https://doi.org/10.1145/3679240.3734593Artifact of the paper: Wedge-Parallel Triangle Counting for GPUs (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Spaan, J., Chen, K.-H., Bader, D. & Varbanescu, A.-L.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15611507Shielded reinforcement learning for fault-tolerant scheduling in real-time systems (2025)Real-time systems, 61(2), 306-310. Shi, J. & Chen, K.-H.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11241-025-09441-zInTreeger: An End-to-End Framework for Integer-Only Decision Tree Inference (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Bart, D., Forlin, B. E., Varbanescu, A.-L., Ottavi, M. & Chen, K.-H.REAP-NVM: Resilient Endurance-Aware NVM-Based PUF Against Learning-Based Attacks (2025)In 2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE). Article 10992747. IEEE. Nassar, H., Wei, M.-L., Yang, C.-L., Henkel, J. & Chen, K.-H.https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10992747

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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