Lothar Thiele

Biography

Lothar Thiele was born in Aachen, Germany on April 7, 1957. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 1981 and 1985 respectively. After completing his Habilitation thesis from the Institute of Network Theory and Circuit Design of the Technical University Munich, he joined the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University in 1987. In 1988, he took up the chair of microelectronics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. He joined ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as a full Professor of Computer Engineering, in 1994.

Research Interest

His research interests include models, methods and software tools for the design of embedded systems, cyberphysical systems, sensor networks, embedded software and bioinspired optimization techniques.