We are delighted to announce that Vincent Kenbeek won the ESBS-Austria Young Academics 2024 award for his Master Thesis “Improving Technical Documentation for Digital Design: Using Generative AI to Enhance Understanding of Timing Diagrams”. The award recognizes outstanding Master’s theses on the topic “Electronics and Software Based Systems,” focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in and for chips. The Award was presented at the ESBS-Austria conference on November 7 and is endowed with 2000 Euros.

Based on Vincent’s research, Radu Grosu, Professor and Head of the Research Unit Cyber-Physical Systems, Professor Ezio Bartocci, and Jie He, have submitted a paper to a top-tier conference. Their approach uses multimodal Large Language Models to automatically interpret images of signal diagrams and provide interactive explanations in response to user queries, outperforming ChatGPT-4 in this specific task.

Congratulations!

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Electronics and Software Based Systems (ESBS) Austria is a research, innovation, and development forum led by industry that focuses on micro- and nanoelectronics, embedded systems, as well as systems integration. It was founded in 2013 by former platforms ARTEMIS-Austria (embedded software and software architecture) and ENIAC-Austria (micro- and nanoelectronics). Its scope has since expanded to include systems and systems architecture, framework conditions and visibility, as well as network development.

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