TU Wien Informatics

Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering is based on an integral approach combining informatics, communications technology and microelectronics. The primary area of research is embedded systems, which are an essential part of many objects in our everyday life.

Computer Engineering

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Research Topics

  • Digital Circuits and Hardware Architectures
  • Parallel and Distributed, Dependable, Real-time Systems
  • Hybrid Systems and Optimal Control
  • Quantitative and Runtime Verification
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Autonomous Systems, Robotics and Automation Systems Integration
  • Cyber-physical Social Systems & Internet of Things

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Computer Engineering is based on an integral approach combining informatics, communications technology and microelectronics. The primary area of research is embedded systems, which are an essential part of many objects in our everyday life.

The research focus Computer Engineering deals with all aspects of the direct interaction of computer systems and their environment, from the lowest level of circuit and hardware architectures to safety-critical cyber-physical systems like industrial automation and smart grids, healthcare, spacecraft, and automotive.

Designing such systems is challenging, both from a scientific and technological perspective: Many functions are directly implemented in hardware for performance reasons, distributed and parallel processing is omnipresent, digital signal processing is often required, real-time and power/thermal constraints must be met, energy-efficiency is crucial, stopping operation in the case of failures is often not feasible, unique security issues and threats exist, “trial-and-error-style programming” is not an option in many applications, asserting system correctness by means of testing may be insufficient for the required reliability level, emergent behavior originating from autonomous operation must be understood and controlled, integration and complexity issues created by the upcoming Internet of Things must be managed, etc.

Key characteristics of the research focus Computer Engineering are hence (i) an integrative view of a multitude of system aspects, including hardware architectures, continuous/discrete systems, parallelism and communication, dependability, real-time processing, low-power design, energy and resource efficiency, decision and control theory, autonomy, etc., and (ii) interdisciplinarity: Core computer science knowledge and skills like programming, modeling, design and analysis, formal verification and synthesis of both software and hardware are complemented by specific knowledge and skills from other disciplines, in particular, continuous mathematics, system theory and electrical engineering.

Research Units

Five of the faculty’s twenty-five research units are primarily focused on topics related to Computer Engineering. Visit their pages to learn about current projects, publications, courses, and the people involved.

Below is a small selection of recent research activities related to Computer Engineering. To learn more, visit the pages of the research units listed above.

  • Daniel Müller-Gritschneder: Best Student Paper Award: Pierpaolo Mori, Lukas Frickenstein, Shambhavi Balamuthu Sampath, Moritz Thoma, Nael Fasfous, Manoj Rohit Vemparala, Alexander Frickenstein, Christian Unger, Walter Stechele, Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder, Claudio Passerone "Wino Vidi Vici: Conquering Numerical Instability of 8-Bit Winograd Convolution for Accurate Inference Acceleration on Edge"
    2024 / IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2024 / USA
  • Ivona Brandic: Best Paper Award at the premier annual conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, 16th IEEE/ACM UCC
    2023 / UCC 2023 / USA
  • Daniel Müller-Gritschneder: Best Paper Award: Samira Ahmadi, Rafael Stahl, Philipp van Kempen, Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder and Ulf Schlichtmann. "Towards Rapid Exploration of Heterogeneous TinyML Systems using Virtual Platforms and TVM’s UMA."
    2023 / Workshop on Compilers, Deployment, and Tooling for Edge AI. / Germany
  • Sascha Hunold: Best Short Paper / PMBS@Supercomputing
    2022 / USA
  • Ezio Bartocci: Best Paper of QEST 2022 International Conference
    2022 / 19th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems / Poland
  • Ezio Bartocci: Best Software Science Paper of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) 2022
    2022 / European Association of Software Science and Technology (EASST) / Germany / Website
  • Sascha Hunold: Best Paper Award IEEE CLUSTER 2020
    2020 / Japan
  • Daniel Müller-Gritschneder: Habilitationspreis
    2019 / Bund der Freunde der technischen Universität München / Germany / Website
  • Daniel Müller-Gritschneder: Best Paper Award for Paper: Saman Payvar, Mir Khan, Rafael Stahl, Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder, Jani Boutellier "Neural Network-based Vehicle Image Classification for IoT Devices"
    2019 / IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, SiPS 2019 / China
  • Daniel Müller-Gritschneder: Senior Member
    2019 / IEEE / USA
  • Jesper Larsson Träff: Innovation Radar: Innovation Title: PGAS-based MPI with interoperability; Innovation Category: Exploration; FP 7 project EPiGRAM
    2018 / Project
  • Ivona Brandic: Rucon - Runtime Control in Multi Clouds
    2016 / START-Programm / Austria
  • Sascha Hunold: Best Paper Award EuroMPI/Asia
    2014 / Japan
  • Jesper Larsson Träff: Best Paper Award: "Reproducible MPI Micro-Benchmarking Isn't As Easy As You Think", S. Hunold, A. Carpen-Amarie, J. Träff, 21st European MPI Users' Group Meeting, EuroMPI/ASIA 2014, Kyoto, Japan, September 9-12, 2014
    2014 / Program Chairs of EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 / Japan
  • Ivona Brandic: Best Paper Award:"M4Cloud - Generic Application Level Monitoring for Resource-Shared Cloud Environments"; T. Mastelic, V. Emeakaroha, M. Maurer, I. Brandic; at the 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2012
    2012 / INSTICC, CLOSER / Portugal
  • Ivona Brandic: Wissenschaftspreis der TU Wien für das Forschungsprojekt "HALEY-Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds"
    2011 / Wissenschaftspreis
  • Ivona Brandic: Best Student Paper Award:Towards Self-Awareness in Cloud Markets: A Monitoring Methodology; Ivan Beskovic, Christian Haas, Simon Caton, Ivona Brandic
    2011 / IEEE Computer Society / Australia
  • Ivona Brandic: MiA-Award 2011 für Wissenschaft & Forschung
    2011 / Austria
  • Ivona Brandic: Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) - ICT call 2008
    2008 / Austria
  • Wilfried Elmenreich: E-Learning Award 2006/2007 für ausgezeichnete Leistungen in der Lehrentwicklung (Kategorie für Speziallösungen)
    2007 / Austria