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, 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

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

Organisations

My main research centres on Embedded 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 Memory Technologies

I have also served on several technical program committees (TPC) and organization teams:

transactions and journals:

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)

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

2025

Chronos: Compensating Hardware Related Overheads with Native Multi Timer Support for Real-Time Operating Systems (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Heider, K., Hakert, C., Chen, K.-H. & Chen, J.-J.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.01444Evaluating the Impact of Racetrack Memory Misalignment Faults on BNNs Performance (2025)In Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (pp. 230-245) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15226). Springer. Bereholschi, L. D., Yayla, M., Chen, J.-J., Chen, K.-H. & Khan, A. A.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78377-7_16Introduction to the Special Issue on Fault-Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems - Part 2 (2025)ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 9(1). Article 7. Chen, K.-H., Li, J., Reghenzani, F. & Chen, J.-J.https://doi.org/10.1145/3712019Resilient Endurance-Aware NVM-based PUF against Learning-based Attacks (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Nassar, H., Wei, M.-L., Yang, C.-L., Henkel, J. & Chen, K.-H.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.06367

2024

An Enhanced Fault Injection Framework for FPGA-Based Soft-Cores (2024)In 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT). Article 10753564. IEEE. Smit, T. T., Forlin, B. E., Chen, K.-H., Souvatzoglou, I., Psarakis, M. & Ottavi, M.https://doi.org/10.1109/DFT63277.2024.10753564Introduction to Special Issue on In/Near Memory and Storage Computing for Embedded Systems (2024)ACM transactions on embedded computing systems, 23(6), 1-3. Article 85. Shi, L., Hu, J., Amrouch, H., Chen, K. H., Zhao, M. & Liu, W.https://doi.org/10.1145/3677018Eliminating Timing Anomalies in Scheduling Periodic Segmented Self-Suspending Tasks with Release Jitter (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Lin, C.-C., Günzel, M., Shi, J., Seidl, T. T., Chen, K.-H. & Chen, J.-J.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.09061Introduction to the Special Issue on Fault-Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems – Part I (2024)ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, 8(3). Article 29. Chen, K.-H., Li, J., Reghenzani, F. & Chen, J.-J.https://doi.org/10.1145/3677021Sky$^ε$-Tree: Embracing the Batch Updates of B$^ε$-trees through Access Port Parallelism on Skyrmion Racetrack Memory (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Tsai, Y.-S., Chen, S.-H., Noorlander, M. & Chen, K.-H.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.17499Language-Based Deployment Optimization for Random Forests (Invited Paper) (2024)In LCTES '24: 25th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24 June 2024 (pp. 58-61). ACM Publishing. Malcher, J., Biebert, D., Chen, K.-H., Buschjäger, S., Hakert, C. & Chen, J.-J.https://doi.org/10.1145/3652032.3659366

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