About
Rolf Drechsler received the Diploma and Dr. phil. nat. degrees in computer science from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt
am Main, Germany, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He worked at the Institute of Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg im
Breisgau, Germany, from 1995 to 2000, and at the Corporate Technology Department, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, from 2000 to 2001.
Since October 2001, Rolf Drechsler is a Full Professor and Head of the
Group of Computer
Architecture,
Institute of Computer Science, at the University of Bremen, Germany.
In 2011, he additionally became the Director of the
Cyber-Physical Systems Group at the
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Bremen.
His current research interests include the development and design of data structures and algorithms with a focus on circuit and system
design. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
From 2008 to 2013 he was the Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics at the University of Bremen, and from 2018 to 2025 he was the Dean of the
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.
Rolf Drechsler was a member of Program Committees of numerous conferences including e.g., DAC, ICCAD, DATE, ASP-DAC, FDL, MEMOCODE, and
FMCAD. He was Symposiums Chair at ISMVL 1999 and 2014, and the Topic Chair for "Formal Verification" at DATE 2004, DATE 2005, DAC 2010,
and DAC 2011 and 2018. He was the General Chair of the IEEE European Test Symposium 2018 and the Program Chair of ICCAD 2020.
He received best paper awards at the Haifa Verification Conference (HVC) in 2006, the Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL) in
2007, 2010 and 2020, the IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS) in 2010, the Euromirco Digital
System Design Conference 2020 and the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) in 2013 and 2018. He received the
Berninghausen Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2018.
He is a co-founder of the
Graduate School of Embedded Systems and he is the
coordinator of the
Graduate School "System Design" funded within
the German Excellence Initiative. He is a co-founder and the spokesperson of the
Data
Science Center at the University of Bremen.
Rolf Drechsler served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, Chip, IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, International Journal
on Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing, and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.
