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The CC team is extremely happy to welcome Jennifer (Jiaxin) Huang!! Jennifer obtained her bachelor’s in Communication Engineering at the Shanghai University in 2015 and her Master’s in Electrical Engineering Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2020. She then joined the TU Dresden where she is will soon receive her PhD under the supervision of Christian Mayr on “A Hybrid Paradigm Compilation System for Efficient SNN Inference on the Heterogeneous Multi-core SpiNNaker2 Neuromorphic Platform”. While doing her PhD Jennifer also worked at Infineon Technologies Dresden (she started as industrial PhD student) and at SpiNNcloud Systems GmbH. In the context, Jennifer worked as (senior) software engineer, working towards the end as head of the compiler team at SpiNNcloud. Her background on building compilation tools for emerging and heterogenous systems is a perfect fit to work at the chair, mostly in the context of the SCADS.AI project, with strong synergies with the COMETH ERC Consolidator Grant and the REC2 Excellence Cluster. We are super excited about working with her in the coming years!

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The CC Chair was represented at the 2026 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), the world's leading event in Computational Intelligence research and applications, held in Maastricht, Netherlands, from June 22 to 26, 2026. WCCI brings together three flagship conferences: the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, and the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. At IJCNN 2026, under the Neuromorphic Systems track, Tauseef Ahmed presented his work on "Spiking and Event-driven Neuromorphic Mamba Models for Efficient Speech Recognition." The paper investigates techniques to introduce unstructured sparsity into Mamba-based architectures and explores its benefits for SENECA, the neuromorphic hardware from imec, advancing research in algorithm–hardware co-design.

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Prof. Castrillon ran the 27th edition of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2026) last week, June 15-16 in Boulder CO, USA! LCTES is a premier conference that provides a link between the programming languages and embedded systems engineering communities, co-located with the prestigious PLDI conference. The program of LCTES included 15 full paper presentations and 4 work-in-progress ones, covering topics such as advanced compiler tuning, binary optimization and system security, reliability and formal methods to verify program execution, specialized hardware and accelerator design, and memory efficiency. The program was rounded up by a keynote by Prof. Aviral Shrivastava from the Arizona State University, USA, on "Practical Quantum Machine Learning: Overcoming the Bottlenecks of Scalability and Stability". Big thanks to the authors for their great contributions, to the LCTES’26 TPC for the timely, fair and insightful reviews, and to Prof. Christian Dietrich as Program Co-Chair and Prof. Jian-Jia Chen as General Chair. 

 

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We are happy to welcome Guilherme de Oliveira to the CCC team! Guilherme obtained his BSc in Economics and his MSc in Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brasil in 2022 and 2025, respectively. In the past years, Guilherme has worked for Cadence Design Systems as senior compiler engineer and as graduate researcher at the renown Compiler Lab led by Prof. Fernando Pereira at the University of Minas Gerais. He did his master thesis in the same lab, were he developed a method for certified compilation using Gödel Numbers. At the CC Chair, Guilherme will apply his expertise in compilers in the context of the REC2 Excellence Cluster, researching new programming and compilation methodologies for emerging and sustainable computing systems. We look forward to working with Guilherme and are excited about having him in the team! 

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The CC Chair was busy at this year’s Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) in Verona, Italy. It started on Monday with Tassilo Tanneberger’s presentation on “Macros as Abstractions: Simplifying Code Generation for Lingua Franca” at the Workshop on Reactive Cyber-Physical Systems: Design, Simulation, and Coordination (ReCPS). That same day Prof. Castrillon participated in a panel organised in the context of DATE’s Young People Programme addressing challenges of work-life balance in academia. Also on Monday, investigators of the eCAT project met to kick-off the collaborative project with partners in Germany and France. Prof. Castrillon also gave a talk on “Top-Down Analysis via Integrated Compilers Frameworks” in the workshop on Rapid Design Space Explorations of Novel Hardware Solutions: from Atoms to Applications, and a talk on “Energy Efficiency for edge/cloud optimization” in the EMEC Workshop on Energy and Material Efficiency in Cloud-Edge continuum, where he reported on the tooling status of the MYRTUS project. 

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The joint IEEE/ACM HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC 2026 conference took place in Sydney, Australia, from Saturday, 31 January to Wednesday, 4 February 2026, bringing together researchers from architecture, compilers, and parallel programming. Our Chair was represented by Prof. Anderson Faustino da Silva, Asif Ali Khan, and João Paulo C. de Lima, who contributed across several co-located venues. At CGO 2026, Anderson Faustino da Silva presented two papers in collaboration with Prof. Fernando Pereira: On the Precision of Dynamic Program Fingerprints Based on Performance Counters and Binary Diffing via Library Signatures. At HPCA 2026, João presented Count2Multiply: Reliable In-Memory High-Radix Counting, the result of a long-standing collaboration with Prof. Alex K. Jones. In addition, João gave an invited talk titled “Fault Injection Framework for Processing-using-Memory Architectures” at MCCSys 2026, the Workshop on Memory-Centric Computing Systems, and Asif presented “Compilation for Heterogeneous Near-Memory and In-Memory Computing Architectures” at LATHC 2026, the Workshop on Languages, Tools, and Compilers for Heterogeneous Computing.

 

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The CC chair welcomes Tauseef Ahmed to the team! Tauseef obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication from the PES University in Bangalore India in 2013. He then spent several years working for companies such as Siemens, Intel, and IMEC. In 2025 he finished his Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Maastricht University. Tauseef joins the team in the context of the REACT Doctoral Network financed by the European Union within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). This project looks at self-awaRe nEuromorphic ArChiTectures, from the point of view of security, reliability and energy-efficiency. Tauseef experience in the micro-electronics industry and his background on computer architecture and artificial intelligence makes him ideal to tackle the challenges of programming and compiling reactive applications that execute close or at sensing nodes in cyber-physical systems (CPS). We look forward to working with Tauseef and are excited about having him in the team! 

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The CC chair congratulates Robert Khasanov and Till Smejkal for receiving a Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at the 26th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, held from December 15 to December 19, 2025, in Nashville, USA.

This award was presented for the paper “HARP: Energy-Aware and Adaptive Management of Heterogeneous Processors”, which is a result of a long-standing collaboration with Prof. Hermann Härtig and the Chair of Operating Systems. Robert Khasanov and Till Smejkal contributed equally to this work; the paper was presented at the conference by Robert Khasanov.

The paper introduces HARP, a resource-management framework for heterogeneous processors that enables coordinated adaptivity between the operating system and applications, leading to improved performance and energy efficiency.

The annual ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference is a major international forum for research on middleware and distributed systems, spanning topics from distributed platforms to resource management and energy-aware computing.

TU Dresden news from Dec 19, 2025

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TUD Dresden University of Technology performed exceptionally well in the 2024 call for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks. In total, seven projects involving TU Dresden (TUD) were selected for funding. One of these networks is coordinated by TUD. In the other six, TUD is involved as a partner. A total of around EUR 2.76 million will be allocated to TUD for this purpose.

cfaed is part of this success: TU Dresden holds a beneficiary partner role in the project 'REACT – Self-AwaRe NEuromorphic ArChiTectures: Security, Reliability and Energy-Efficiency'. The project lead on the TUD side lies in the hands of Prof. Jeronimo Castrillon (Faculty of Computer Science).

The REACT network (Funding sum for TUD: EUR 290,272.32) is training 15 doctoral students in neuromorphic systems—computer architectures inspired by the human brain. The goal is to develop adaptive, secure, and extremely energy-efficient hardware and software solutions. TU Dresden contributes its expertise in compiler technology and system software, helping to unlock the potential of neuromorphic systems for future, sustainable IT applications.

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portrait photo of prof. Jeronimo Castrillon
Prof. Jeronimo Castrillon © M. Hahndorf for Collaborative Research Center/Transregio "Active-3D"

Jerónimo Castrillón-Mazo, Chair of Compiler Construction at the Faculty of Computer Science at TUD Dresden University of Technology (TUD), has been awarded one of the European Union's highly endowed ERC Consolidator Grants. His project, COMpilers for ExTreme Heterogeneity (COMETH), which will run for five years and receive EUR 2 million in funding, aims to develop a new generation of tools that will simplify the programming of increasingly complex computer systems for scientists, engineers, and other users.