Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kuan-Hsun Chen
Computersysteme (Chen)
Contact and Affiliations
- E-Mail:
- kuan-hsun.chen@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-4584
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-7110-921X
- Web:
- Homepage (Extern)
- Social Media:
- Office Address:
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Pohlweg 51
33098 Paderborn - Room:
- O2.167
- Office hours:
By appointment.
About Kuan-Hsun Chen
Kuan-Hsun Chen is Professor and Head of the Computer Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science at Paderborn University since October 2026. Before joining Paderborn, he was a tenured Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. From August 2019 to August 2021, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Design Automation for Embedded Systems group at TU Dortmund University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from TU Dortmund University in 2019, where his dissertation was awarded summa cum laude and received a dissertation prize.
His research focuses on computer systems, in particular dependable and predictable operating and runtime systems, compiler and runtime support, memory and resource management, and hardware–software co-design for modern and heterogeneous computing platforms.
His work has received several distinctions, including Outstanding TPC member at DAC'26, Distinguished Reviewer Award at DSN'26, Best Paper Nomination at Euro-Par'25, Outstanding Reviewer Award at CODES+ISSS'24, Best Paper Award at ECRTS’23, Best Paper Nomination at DATE'21 and Dissertation Award at TU Dortmund University (2019). He has published more than 90 scientific works in leading peer-reviewed journals, including IEEE TC, IEEE TCAD, and ACM TECS, as well as at international conferences, including RTSS, RTAS, DAC, and DATE. He also actively serves on the Technical Program Committees of premier conferences, including EuroSys, DSN, RTSS, DAC, and DATE, and regularly reviews for peer-reviewed journals in computer science and engineering. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine and has held leading organizational roles in the research community, including Topic Chair for A6 at DATE 2027, OSPERT 2025 Co-Chair, and ICCD 2025 Track Co-Chair. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of HiPEAC.
Outside his academic work, he dedicates his time to mentorship and open-source development. He has been a volunteer mentor in the ESA Summer of Code in Space in 2017 and in Google Summer of Code since 2016, focusing on open-source development for RTEMS, a widely used real-time operating system.
Curriculum Vitae
01.10.2026: Professor at Paderborn University, Germany
Head of the Computer Systems group
01.09.2021 - 30.09.2026: Assistant Professor at University of Twente, The Netherlands
Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems Group, tenured since 2022
01.08.2019 - 30.08.2021: Postdoc at TU Dortmund, Germany
Chair of Design Automation for Embedded Systems
01.04.2014 - 31.07.2019: Research Associate at TU Dortmund, Germany
Chair of Design Automation for Embedded Systems
01.03.2013 - 31.03.2014: Research Associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Chair of Micro Hardware Technologies for Automation
07/2026: Outstanding TPC Member from 2026 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
06/2026: Distinguished Reviewer Award from 2026 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
06/2025: Best Paper Nomination from 2025 International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par)
Wedge-Parallel Triangle Counting for GPUs
10/2024: Outstanding Reviewer Award from 2024 ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS)
07/2023: Best Paper Award from 2023 Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS)
On the Equivalence of Maximum Reaction Time and Maximum Data Age for Cause-Effect Chains
02/2021: Best Paper Nomination from 2021 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE)
Margin-Maximization in Binarized Neural Networks for Optimizing Bit Error Tolerance