Wolfgang Nebel
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| Wolfgang Nebel | |
| Born | November 18, 1956 |
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| Occupation | Computer Scientist & Professor |
Wolfgang Nebel (born November 18, 1956) is a German computer scientist and professor for integrated circuit design at the computer science (Informatik) department of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
[edit] Biography
Nebel holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hanover and a Dr.-Ing. degree from the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern, where he has worked for Reiner Hartenstein. In 1987 Nebel joint Philips Semiconductors, Hamburg, and worked as software engineer, CAD project manager and finally became CAD software development manager. From 1996 to 1998 he served as Dean of his department. Additionally since 1998 Nebel has been a member of the executive board of the OFFIS research center, an institute associated with Oldenburg University. From January 2001 December 2002 Nebel served as vice-president of Oldenburg University. Since June 2005 Nebel has been chairman of the OFFIS research institute. Nebel is co-founder, chairman and CTA of ChipVision Design Systems AG, an EDA start-up company located in Oldenburg, San Ramon, San Jose and Munich.
Nebel is and has been involved in several international conferences as program chair or a general chair. He is also active in several additional program committees and professional organizations. His research interest are in methodologies and tools for embedded system design, in particular: object oriented HW/SW specification and synthesis as well as design for low power. He is an internationally well received expert on computer systems with low energy consumption. Not only because of rapidly growing oil prices this is a strategic issue, since predictions of energy consumption of the entire national cyber infrastructure of the USA by the year 2025, also including PCs, server farms and other electronics, range up to almost 50% of the entire national energy consumption.
