Heiko Falk
Full Professor Institute Head at Hamburg University of Technology
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolHeiko Falk is a leading expert in embedded and real-time systems, specializing in WCET-aware compilation, hardware/software codesign, and performance-predictable code generation. Since 2015 he has founded and heads the Institute of Embedded Systems at Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), building a center for advanced research. Before TUHH, he was a full professor at Ulm University and TU Dortmund, and has served in executive roles at TUHH, including Dean and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics. His group developed the WCC compiler, touted as the only compiler to minimize worst-case execution time by tightly integrating static timing analyses into code generation. His research has appeared at top conferences such as DAC, DATE, CODES+ISSS, and ECRTS, and he has led EU projects like PREDATOR focusing on predictability and efficiency. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from TU Dortmund in 2004 and holds a Dipl.-Inform. and a Maître in Computer Science from Université de Caen Normandie, reflecting a blend of rigorous theory and practical, production-oriented research.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Maitre, Computer Science, Maitre, Computer Science at Université de Caen NormandieDr. rer. nat., Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science at TU Dortmund University
French, English, German
Github Skills (6)
benchmarking9
benchmark9
image8
image-processing7
photography6
darktable5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
tacle/tacle-bench
Jun 2015 - Mar 2019
TACLe Benchmarks
Contributions:68 commits, 68 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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heikofalk/haRTStone
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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