Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl
Assistant Professor
| Address | Department of Computer Science University of Paderborn Pohlweg 47–49 33098 Paderborn, Germany |
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| Office | O3.110 | |
| Phone | +49 5251 60-5399 | |
| christian.plessl@uni-paderborn.de | ||
| WWW | http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/plessl | |
| Office hours | Schedule an appointment: http://doodle.com/plessl |
Christian Plessl is assistant professor for "custom computing" at the department of Computer Science at the University of Paderborn. He is affiliated with the Computer Engineering Group and also with the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²) where he is leading the research activities in the area of custom computing and many-cores.
He earned a PhD degree (Dr. sc. ETH) in Computer Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2006, and a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001, also from ETH Zurich. Before his appointment as an assistant professor in 2011, he held postdoc positions at the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing and previously at ETH Zurich.
Dr. Plessl is involved with several national and transnational research projects. For example, he is the scientific and technical manager of the EPiCS project funded by the European Commission, co-principal investigator and coordinator of the ENHANCE project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), and member of the DFG collaborative research center SFB901 On-The-Fly Computing. His research has also received support from industry, for example, by grants from Intel, Xilinx and others.
Dr. Plessl is a member of the IEEE and the HiPEAC Network of Excellence. He is a regular reviewer for scientific journals and serves on the program committee of major international conferences in the area of reconfigurable computing. His current research interests include parallel and reconfigurable computer architectures, hardware-software codesign and self-aware adaptive computing systems.