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Our Computer Engineering (CE) research focus has an integrative systems perspective that bridges traditionally separate disciplines: Our researchers combine expertise in hardware and software co-design, cyber-physical systems, dependable and safety-critical systems, energy-aware computing, and scalable computing infrastructures. This allows us to address challenges ranging from low-power embedded devices and intelligent edge systems to autonomous cyber-physical ecosystems and high-performance computing platforms.
Through strong international collaborations and leadership in European and national research projects, we shape the future of computing technologies and their societal impact. Our industry partnerships translate fundamental research into impact, exemplified by our pioneering time-triggered systems and the spin-off TTTech, as well as internationally recognized research leading to Liquid Neural Networks and Liquid AI.
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Big questions deserve high standards. Our award-winning research shows that we are pushing the limits. Here is what we have been working on.
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Recent Projects
- 2026 – 2029 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- 2026 – 2028 / Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)
- 2025 – 2028 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
- 2025 – 2028 / Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) / Website
- 2023 – 2028 / TTTech Auto AG / Publications (4)
- 2019 – 2028 / Intel Corporation
- 2024 – 2027 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Publications (5)
- 2024 – 2027 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Publications (14)
- 2023 – 2027 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Publications (19)
- 2025 – 2026 / WienIT GmbH
- 2025 – 2026 / XCoorp GmbH
- 2025 – 2026 / TÜV Austria Holding AG
- 2024 – 2026 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) / Publications (6)
- 2022 – 2026 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) / Publication
- 2022 – 2026 / European Commission / Publications (2)
- 2024 – 2025 / WienIT GmbH
- 2023 – 2025 / European Commission / Publications (6)
- 2023 – 2025 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) / Publications (11)
- 2022 – 2025 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) / Website / Publications (5)
- 2021 – 2025 / Austrian Science Fund (FWF) / Publications (16)
Recent Publications
- Gao, Q., Han, L., Hunold, S., Robert, Y., Vivien, F. (2026). Coping With Silent Errors for Workflows of Moldable Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 37(11), 2296–2311. Peer-reviewed.
- He, J., Kenbeek, V. T. W., Yang, Z., Qu, M., Bartocci, E., Ničković, D., Grosu, R. (2026). TD-interpreter: enhancing the understanding of timing diagrams with visual-language learning. Computing, 108(11), Article 163. Peer-reviewed.
- Hunold, S., Träff, J. L., Laso, R. (2026). Tuned your MPI library? Now check the performance guidelines. Parallel Computing, 129, Article 103205. Peer-reviewed.
- Ahmad, S., Schneidergruber, T., Brandic, I., Scholz, J. (2026). On-Device Federated Learning for Remote Alpine Livestock Monitoring. In W. E. Nagel, D. Goehringer, P. C. Diniz (Eds.), Euro-Par 2025: Parallel Processing : 31st European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dresden, Germany, August 25–29, 2025, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 365–379). Springer. Peer-reviewed.
- Laso, R., Salimi Beni, M., Vardas, I., Benkner, S., Hunold, S. (2026). Where Did My NCCL Calls Go? A Profiler Comparison. In 2026 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops : IPDPSW 2026 (pp. 431–435). IEEE. Peer-reviewed.
- Šabanović, A., Maliakel, P. J., Brandić, I. (2026). INAR-VL: Input-Aware Routing for Edge–Cloud Vision–Language Inference. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services Workshops (pp. 328–335). Association for Computing Machinery.
- Lehninger, P., Steininger, A., Jantsch, A. (2026). Effect of Self-Timed Design Styles on the Lifetime of NEMS Circuits. In 2026 30th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems : ASYNC 2026 (pp. 88–91). IEEE Computer Society. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.1109/ASYNC69614.2026.00022 / Download: PDF
- Burin, J., Afsah, A., Steininger, A. (2026). Amplifier Circuit-Based Metastability Model. In 2026 30th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC) (pp. 74–82). IEEE. Peer-reviewed.
- Djajapermana, M., Reiber, M., Müller-Gritschneder, D., Schlichtmann, U. (2026). Hybrid Convolution and Vision Transformer NAS Search Space for TinyML Image Classification. In M. Cerrato, D. Kalinauskaitė, M. Lukoševičius, Kristina Šutienė, M. Pechenizkiy (Eds.), Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (pp. 168–179). Springer.HDL: 20.500.12708/230081
- Laso, R., Salimi Beni, M., Vardas, I., Benkner, S., Hunold, S. (2026). To ncclsee, or Not to ncclsee: That is the Profiling Question. In I. Vialov (Ed.), Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2026 – ASHPC26 (pp. 13–13). EuroCC Austria.DOI: 10.34726/12480 / Download: PDF
- Clement, M.-L., Farsang, M., Stanusoiu, M.-T., Rus, D., Hasani, R., Grosu, R., Bartocci, E. (2026). Evaluating Domain-Shift Generalization of Liquid Neural Networks in Autonomous Driving. In Catch, Adapt, and Operate: Monitoring ML Models Under Drift Workshop. Catch, Adapt, and Operate: Monitoring ML Models Under Drift Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Peer-reviewed.HDL: 20.500.12708/227937 / Project: DK - AR
- Lemmel, J., Resch, F., Farsang, M., Hasani, R., Rus, D., Grosu, R. (2026). Online Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Controllers for Autonomous Driving via Real-Time Recurrent RL. In Catch, Adapt, and Operate: Monitoring ML Models Under Drift Workshop. Catch, Adapt, and Operate: Monitoring ML Models Under Drift Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Peer-reviewed.HDL: 20.500.12708/227938
- Yadav, D., Mandrioli, C., Bartocci, E., Bianculli, D. (2026). Fault Injection for Simulink-based CPS Models: Insights and Future Directions. In 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) (pp. 3834–3839). IEEE. Peer-reviewed.
- Lemmel, J., Kranzl, M., Lamine, A., Neubauer, P., Grosu, R., Neubauer, S. (2026). Online Fine-Tuning of Carbon Emission Predictions using Real-Time Recurrent Learning for State Space Models. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 6953–6958). IEEE. Peer-reviewed.DOI: 10.34726/12240 / Download: PDF
- Grosu, R. (2026). ResNets, NeuralODEs and CT-RNNs are Particular Neural Regulatory Networks. In Engineering Safe and Trustworthy Cyber Physical Systems : Essays Dedicated to Werner Damm on the Occasion of His 71st Birthday (Vol. 15471, pp. 288–297). Springer. Peer-reviewed.
- Schuchart, J., Bouteiller, A., Hunold, S., Jaeger, J., Niethammer, C., Smith, B. (Eds.). (2026). Recent Advances in the Message Passing Interface (Vol. 15977). Springer, Cham. Peer-reviewed.
- El Shahaby, R., Függer, M., Huemer, F., Steininger, A. (2025). SeAL: A Provably Complete Fault-Injection Tool for Asynchronous Circuits. In 2025 32nd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS). 32nd IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2025), Marrakech, Morocco. IEEE. Peer-reviewed.
- Ertl, M. A. (2025). Multi-precision integer arithmetics. In D. Holle, J. Knoop, M. Plümicke, P. Thiemann, B. Trancón Widemann (Eds.), Tagungsband des Jahrestreffens 2025 der GI-Fachgruppe “Programmiersprachen und Rechenkonzepte” (pp. 15–25). Fakultät Technik der DHBW Stuttgart.
- van Kempen, P., Hager-Clukas, A., Müller-Gritschneder, D., Schlichtmann, U. (2025). GenIE: Reuse-Oriented Generation of Domain-Specific Instruction Extensions. In 2025 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS). IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS 2025), Riga, Latvia. IEEE. Peer-reviewed.
- Klotz, S., Joglekar, N., Bucksch, T., Goswami, D., Müller-Gritschneder, D. (2025). Embedding Current Constraints in Reinforcement Learning for Electric Motor Control. In 2025 IEEE PES 35th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC). IEEE PES 35th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2025), Brisbane, Australia. IEEE. Peer-reviewed.
Recent Presentations
- Kofnov, A., Kapla, D. B., Bartocci, E., Bura, E. (2025, December 17). Exact Upper and Lower Bounds for the Output Distribution of Neural Networks with Random Inputs [Conference Presentation]. 2025 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS), Sevilla, Spain.HDL: 20.500.12708/225179
- Ertl, M. A. (2025, September 14). What is a character? UTF-8, Unicode, and the Xchar wordset [Conference Presentation]. 41st EuroForth Conference, Hamburg, Germany.DOI: 10.34726/11824 / Download: PDF
- Müller-Gritschneder, D., Lieber, P. (2025, August 16). Combining TinyML Model-based Architecture Methods for Predictive Maintenance in Highly Regulated Environments [Presentation]. AI Solution Days 2025, Nürnberg, Germany.HDL: 20.500.12708/219807
- Müller-Gritschneder, D. (2025, June 25). Towards an Automated Toolchain and Fusion-based Instruction Identification for RISC-V Custom Extensions [Conference Presentation]. 2nd Austrian RISC-V Meetup, Graz, Austria.HDL: 20.500.12708/220428
- Müller-Gritschneder, D. (2025, May 30). Low Overhead Fault Tolerance for tinyML and Security Applications [Presentation]. 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Test and Reliability, Tallinn, Estonia. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/219806
- May, D., Tundo, A., Ilager, S., Brandic, I. (2025). Towards Energy-Efficient Split Computing: A Hardware-Software Co-Design Perspective [Poster Presentation]. EuroSys 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands (the).HDL: 20.500.12708/225745
- Farsang, M., Neubauer, S., Grosu, R. (2024, December 14). Liquid Resistance Liquid Capacitance Networks [Poster Presentation]. NeuroAI: Fusing Neuroscience and AI for Intelligent Solutions (NeuroAI @ NeurIPS2024), Canada.HDL: 20.500.12708/223289
- Müller-Gritschneder, D. (2024, September 11). Rapid Prototyping Methods for custom-tailored, safe and secure RISC-V processors [Conference Presentation]. TRISTAN Technical Conference 2024, Graz, Austria.HDL: 20.500.12708/206261
- Mueller-Gritschneder, D., Geier, J. (2024, September). Open Source Simulators for Pre-Silicon Validation of Safety-critical RISC-V System-on-chip [Conference Presentation]. Open Source Summit 2024, Wien, Austria.HDL: 20.500.12708/206489
- Brandic, I. (2024). Challenges in the Design of Hybrid Classic-Quantum Systems [Keynote Presentation]. The 32nd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2024), Dublin, Ireland.
- Hunold, S. (2023, December 8). Unveiling the Complexities of Performance Analysis and Optimization in HPC Systems [Presentation]. Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.HDL: 20.500.12708/190739
- Brandic, I. (2023, November 17). Sustainable Computing [Presentation]. Can Machines Save The World?, Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/196106
- Brandic, I. (2023, October 18). Benchmarking of Hybrid Computational Continuum [Keynote Presentation]. 35th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2023), Porto Alegre, Brazil. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/196108
- Brandic, I. (2023, October 11). Teil der Lösung oder Teil des Problems - Die ambivalente Rolle von Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Klimafrage [Keynote Presentation]. AI Policy forum Artificial Intelligence Mission Austria 2023, Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/196042
- Brandic, I. (2023, October 5). ChatGPT Sustainability [Presentation]. EY Transformation Talks: KI im Spotlight - Talk 1, Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/196043
- Brandic, I. (2023, September 15). Nachhaltige Nutzung der K.I. in der Mobilität [Keynote Presentation]. Austrian Traffic Telematics Cluster Annual Retreat (ATTC Klausur 2023), Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/196894
- Scheuchenstuhl, D., Ulmer, S., Resch, F., Berducci, L., Grosu, R. (2023, May 29). Enhancing Robot Learning through Learned Human-Attention Feature Maps [Poster Presentation]. ICRA 2023 Workshop on effective Representations, Abstractions, and Priors for Robot Learning (Rap4Robots), London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the).
- Brandic, I. (2023, May 10). Computational Sustainability [Keynote Presentation]. 9th International Conference on Computer Technology Applications (ICCTA 2023), Wien, Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/196896
- Brandic, I. (2023, May 8). Towards Computational Sustainability: The Role of Edge Computing in the Post Moore Era [Keynote Presentation]. International B2B Software Days 2023 - the Future of Digital Business, Austria. Invited.HDL: 20.500.12708/196895
- Ertl, M. A. (2023, May). See-code und Codeerzeugung in Gforth 1.0 [Conference Presentation]. Forth-Tagung 2023, Germany.DOI: 10.34726/5465 / Download: PDF
Recent Theses
- Strasser, M. (2026). Efficient validation of UML sequence diagrams against UML state machines via Kronecker algebra [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.130801 / Download: PDF
- Chakarov, T. (2026). Performance and scalability analysis of dask applications on large scale systems [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.131836 / Download: PDF
- Leszczyk, J. (2026). Computational modeling of macaque locomotion: from motion capture to joint torque actuation [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.136100 / Download: PDF
- Schnirzer, H. (2026). Extending a fast performance estimation approach for out-of-order processors [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.133299 / Download: PDF
- Tremurici, N. (2026). Efficient integrity-tree-aware scheduling for memory controllers with encryption [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.133440 / Download: PDF
- Felber, S. (2026). Complete Characterization of Stabilizing Consensus in Distributed Systems [Dissertation, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.141012 / Download: PDF
- Hagn, M. (2026). LLM-driven translation of GPU code across parallel execution models [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.138663 / Download: PDF
- Tepaev, A. (2026). Comparative evaluation of TLA+ and R-CHECK specifications [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.132821 / Download: PDF
- Cerar, J. (2026). Enhancing the performance analysis of NCCL GPU collectives [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.136848 / Download: PDF
- Mohamed, S. (2026). Higher language features for weak memory models [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.110725 / Download: PDF
- Olusesi, V. E. (2026). Data-Driven Synthesis of Finite-State Machines for AI-Based Self-Adaptive IoT Edge Applications [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.130129 / Download: PDF
- Haraszti, P. (2026). Advancing Karst Spring Time Series Forecasting: Transfer Learning through Temporal Fusion Transformers and xLSTM [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.137441 / Download: PDF
- Blattner, D. (2026). Accelerating the Classic McEliece Post-quantum Cryptosystem using the RISC-V Vector Extension [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.135650 / Download: PDF
- John, M. (2026). Exploring RISC-V Vector Extension for micro-ROS [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.144260 / Download: PDF
- Wolpert-Veit, F. (2026). A more efficient set union operation on distributed memory machines [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2026.141712 / Download: PDF
- Briem, L. F. (2025). Towards resource efficient code generation through dynamic early exits in LLMs [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2025.127160 / Download: PDF
- Leitzinger, L. (2025). A multi objective discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm for mobile offloading [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2025.92761 / Download: PDF
- Dallinger, H. (2025). Verfication of concurrent programs in weak memory models [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2025.110724 / Download: PDF
- Fahringer, J. (2025). Decentralized epistemic-based communication protocols for volatile edge systems [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2025.128844 / Download: PDF
- Fromherz, T. (2025). Optimization strategies for locating extrema in a 5G cellular transceiver model [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm.DOI: 10.34726/hss.2025.122762 / Download: PDF
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The future of CE will be shaped by the increasing integration of artificial intelligence, physical processes, and computing infrastructures. By connecting advances from hardware to large-scale cyber-physical ecosystems, the goal is to push the limits across the whole computing stack. Our vision is to create computing technologies that are intelligent, trustworthy, sustainable, and deeply integrated into the physical systems that support modern life.
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