A genius on the #SGAachen stage!

One of our missions at Startup Grind is to #educate and #inspire our community by bringing to you influential founders.

In November, we are excited to host Prof. Rainer Leupers Entrepreneur & Co-founder of LISATek (today Synopsys), Silexica und Secure Elements GmbH for a fireside chat.

Prof. Rainer Leupers received the M.Sc. (Dipl.-Inform.) and Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) degrees in Computer Science with honors from TU Dortmund in 1992 and 1997. From 1997-2001 he was the Chief Engineer at the Embedded Systems Chair at TU Dortmund. In 2002, he joined RWTH Aachen University as a professor for Software for Systems on Silicon.

His research comprises embedded software development tools, multicore processor architectures, hardware security, and system-level electronic design automation. He served in committees of the leading international EDA conferences and received various scientific awards, including Best Paper Awards at DAC and twice at DATE, as well as several industrial awards.

Dr. Leupers is also engaged as an entrepreneur and in turning research results into innovations. He has served as consultant for various companies, as an expert for the European Commission, and in the management boards of compound research projects like UMIC, HiPEAC, Eurolab4HPC, and ARTIST. He is the coordinator of EU projects TETRACOM and TETRAMAX on academia-industry technology transfer.

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