Achievements & Acknowledgements


Annual Reports

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Academic teaching

  • ['18] Student P. Zyska is awarded the MLP Leistungspreis 2018 for his Bachelor thesis.


Research Projects & Third-party funding

  • ['20] Cost coverage confirmation of the MPC-group Baden Württemberg for FPGA test environment.
  • ['19] Member of the SEPIA project consortium to apply for the BMBF program ZuSE. Proposal reached final stage of the application process but was not funded.


Voluntary Service, Publications & Acknowledgements

Public Work Environment

  • ['22] 1 Research Publication
  • ['22] Invited Reviewer for the Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • ['21] Annual Report 2021
  • ['21] 2 Technical Reports
  • ['21] Invited Reviewer for the IEEE Photonics Journal of the IEEE Photonics Society
  • ['20] Annual Report 2020
  • ['20] Invited member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2020 ISAIC International Symposium
  • ['19] Annual Report 2019
Industrial Work Environment
  • ['09-'15] Reviewer for the Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA)
  • ['07-'11] 10 Patent Publications, 2 Research Publications, 1 PhD Publication
  • ['07-'11] 10 IBM Invention Achievement Awards for granted patents
  • ['07-'11] PhD Thesis at the Dpt. of Optoelectronics (Prof. Dr. Brenner), Institute of Computer Engineering, Heidelberg University
  • ['10] IBM High Value Patent Invention Achievement Award
  • ['09] IBM Second Plateau Invention Achievement Award
  • ['08] IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award
  • ['07] IBM First Patent Application Achievement Award
  • ['06-'10] 12 IBM Patent Issuance Awards for patent proposals
"Thanks to an outstanding team at IBM, the Institute of Computer Engineering at Heidelberg University and all invisible contributors and supporters acting in the background to make this happen!"


Course of Studies

  • ['11] Dr. rer. nat (PhD equivalent) issued 'magna cum laude', University of Mannheim
  • ['01] Dipl. Inf. (MScCE equivalent) issued 'with honors', University of Mannheim


Qualifications, Trainings & Job Locations Map [w3]



Contact
Prof. Dr. Matthias Fertig

Alfred-Wachtel Straße 8
78462 Konstanz

Tel: +49 (0)7531 206 269
Email: mfertig(at)htwg-konstanz.de

Business & Academic Career


Business Career

Project Manager at Dialog Semiconductor AG and Chief Project Manager (CPM) at Volvo Construction Equipment Germany GmbH.

Advisory Engineer and Research Staff member at the IBM Research and Development GmbH.

Development Engineer at the Fraunhofer Institute of Autonomous Intelligent Systems.

Working student at Fujitsu Siemens Technology Solutions GmbH and student research assistant at the University of Mannheim.

Project Manager (PM) and Chief Project Manager (CPM)
Research & Development ['11-'15]
- Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMIC) for mobile devices
- Compact Wheel Loaders (CWL) in the small and mid-size range

Research and Development Engineer ['03-'11]
- IBM Power Microprocessors of the P- and Z-Series
- Integrated optical detectors in standard CMOS SOI processes

Development Engineer ['01-'03]
- Printed circuit boards (PCBs) for autonomous mobile robots
- Control algorithms for autonomous mobile robots

Working Student ['98-'00]
- Optimization of digital circuits
- State machine editor and optimizing HDL generator
- 8B/10B en-/decoder for a DC-balanced coding scheme

Academic Career

Professor of Computer Engineering at Konstanz University of Applied Sciences.

PhD in Science (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Dpt. of Optoelectronics, Heidelberg University in a project corporation with the IBM Research and Development Gmbh and the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory (ZRL).

Master of Science Computer Engineering (Dipl. Inf.) at the Institute of Computer Engineering, Mannheim University.

Professor of Computer Engineering ['15- today]
- Digital and Electrical Engineering, Silicon Photonics
- Electronic Design Automation, Electromagnetic Simulation
- Computer Architecture, Opto-Electronics

Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) ['11]
"The Vector Wave Propagation Method" ['07-'11]
PhD thesis at the Institute of Computer Engineering,
Heidelberg University
Supervisor: Prof. Brenner, Heidelberg University
1st Reviewer: Prof. Brenner, Heidelberg University
2nd Reviewer: Prof. Griese, University of Siegen
Grade: A "Magna Cum Laude", issued by the University of Mannheim
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M.Sc. (Dipl.Inf.) ['01]
"Modellbildung und hybride Regelung des Brine Heaters einer MSF Meerwasser-Entsalzungsanlage" ['00-'01]
Master Thesis at the Institute of Computer Engineering,
Mannheim University
Supervisor: Dr. Gambier, University of Mannheim
1st Reviewer: Prof. Badreddin, University of Mannheim
2nd Reviewer: Prof. Marquardt, RWTH Aachen
Grade: A+ (with honors), issued by the University of Mannheim
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Remark

Besides my ordinary self-administrative, academic teaching and examiner responsibilities as a university professor I consciously decided to be not open for administrative positions at the Konstanz University of Applied Sciences HTWG.