Jörg Henkel is currently with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he is directing the Chair for Embedded Systems CES. Before, he was with NEC Laboratories in Princeton, NJ. His current research is focused on design and architectures for embedded systems with focus on low power and reliability. Prof. Henkel has organized various embedded systems and low power ACM/IEEE conferences/ symposia as General Chair and Program Chair and was a Guest Editor on these topics in various Journals like the IEEE Computer Magazine. He was Program Chair of CODES'01, RSP'02, ISLPED/06, SIPS'08 and CASES'09 and served as General Chair for CODES'02 and ISLPED 2009. He is/has been a steering committee member of major conferences in the embedded systems field like at ICCAD, Codes+ISSS and is also an editorial board member of various journals like the IEEE TVLSI, JOLPE etc. He has given full/half-day tutorials at leading conferences like DAC, ICCAD, DATE etc. Prof. Henkel received the 2008 DATE Best Paper Award and the 2009 IEEE/ACM William J. Mc Calla ICCAD Best Paper Award. He is the Chairman of the IEEE Computer Society, Germany Section, and the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS). He is an initiator and the spokes person of the German national program on 'Dependable Embedded Systems' (SPP 1500) funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). He holds ten US patents.

Design and architectures for embedded systems with focus on low power and reliability.