Past Events
2026
- Stay abroad of Tim Strobel (P14): three-month research stay at KU Leuven, Belgium (planned): September 2026
- Stay abroad of Linus Bantel (P18): three-month research stay at Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA (planned): September 2026
- “6 Years of GS-IMTR — Celebrating Discovery and Education”: anniversary celebration at MotorWorld, Böblingen: July 2026
- Milestone Presentations of Tim Strobel (P14) and Yang Yang (P17): June 2026
- PhD Retreat in Chania, Greece, with career talks by Matthias Sauer (Advantest) and Dirk Pflüger (University of Stuttgart): May 2026
- 4th IMTR Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Test and Reliability at IEEE ETS, Chania, Greece: May 2026
- Milestone Presentation of Linus Bantel (P18): May 2026
- Bernd Laquai joins the team for Advantest University Collaboration: April 2026
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award Dinner: April 2026
- Stay abroad of Karthik Pandaram (P12): three-month research stay at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan: February 2026
2025
- Special session “6 Years of GS-IMTR” at ATS/ITC-Asia, Tokyo, Japan, with keynote by Kotaro Hasegawa, Senior Vice President of Advantest: December 2025
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award to P11 — Thorben Schey et al., “Uncertainty-Guided Live Measurement Sequencing for Fast SAR ADC Linearity Testing” (ICCAD 2025): November 2025
- PhD Defense of Peter Domanski (P3): November 2025
- Second stay abroad of Peter Domanski (P3): six months with Krishnendu Chakrabarty at Arizona State University, USA: November 2025
- 7th Annual Meeting of GS-IMTR: November 2025
- Milestone Presentation of Thorben Schey (P11): October 2025
- First on-tester results of the GS-IMTR ASIC: September 2025
- Milestone Presentations of Karthik Pandaram (P12) and Munazza Sayed (P16): September 2025
- Guest Professor Adit Singh (Auburn University, USA): “Statistical Methods for IC Test and Reliability Optimization”: August–October 2025
- Lecture-series talk by Prof. Shi-Yu Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), “A Speed Learning Scheme to Mitigate Silent Data Corruption in a Multi-Core Design”: August 2025
- PhD Retreat in Ellwangen, Germany: August 2025
- SmarTest 8 training for Tim Strobel: July 2025
- Dung Nguyen Viet begins his doctoral research in Project P13: July 2025
- Milestone Presentation of Marc Rivinius (P20): June 2025
- PhD Forum Award to Hanieh Jafarzadeh (PA4) at IEEE ETS: May 2025
- 3rd IMTR Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Test and Reliability at IEEE ETS, Tallinn, Estonia (12 presentations, 6 invited talks): May 2025
- Lecture-series talk by Prof. Masahiro Fujita (University of Tokyo), “Neural Networks and Quantum Circuit Simulation”: March 2025
- Stay abroad of Thorben Schey (P11): three-month research stay at New York University, USA: February 2025
- Second student excursion to Advantest in Böblingen: February 2025
2024
- SmarTest 8 training for Thorben Schey: December 2024
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award to P5/P3 — Denis Schwachhofer, Peter Domanski et al., “Large Language Model-based Optimization for System-Level Test Program Generation” (DFT 2024): November 2024
- Tim Strobel (P14) and Yang Yang (P17) begin their doctoral research: November 2024
- PhD Defense of Florian Klemme (P9): November 2024
- 6th Annual Meeting of GS-IMTR: November 2024
- Stay abroad of Nourhan Elhamawy (P1): three-month research stay at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan: October 2024
- Stay abroad of Marc Rivinius (P20): three-month research stay at Nokia Bell Labs, Antwerp, Belgium: September 2024
- Guest Professor Stefan Holst (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan): August–September 2024
- Summer School of the GS-IMTR: July 2024
- PhD Defense of Paul Genssler (P10): April 2024
- Aritra Ray (Duke University) begins a longer-term research stay with the GS-IMTR: April 2024
- PhD Defense of Yiwen Liao (P6): March 2024
- Stay abroad of Denis Schwachhofer (P5): three-month research stay at Politecnico di Torino, Italy: March 2024
- First student excursion to Advantest in Böblingen (all 20 slots filled within 37 minutes): February 2024
- Maik Betka becomes the third GS-IMTR graduate to join Advantest: January 2024
2023
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award to P4/P20 — Marc Rivinius et al., “Convolutions in Overdrive: Maliciously Secure Convolutions for MPC” (PETS 2023): November 2023
- Introduction of Phase II doctoral researchers to their Advantest mentors and Phase I researchers, with a per-project poster session: November 2023
- 5th Annual Meeting of GS-IMTR: November 2023
- Sidra Siddiqui begins her doctoral research in Project P19: October 2023
- GS-IMTR Summer School, co-located with the Ferienakademie in South Tyrol, Italy, with a fireside talk by Joachim Mörbt (Vice President Customer Relations, Advantest): September 2023
- GS-IMTR ASIC returns from the foundry: August 2023
- Karthik Pandaram (P12), Tarek Mohamed (P15) and Shuai Zhang (P17) begin their doctoral research: July 2023
- Meet & Greet of the Phase II doctoral researchers at Advantest: July 2023
- NSF Best PhD Paper Award (1st Prize, ICDH 2023) to Peter Domanski (P3): July 2023
- Guest Professor Paul Ralph (Dalhousie University, Canada), with talk “Evidence Standards Improve Reliability in Scholarly Peer Review”: June 2023
- Visit of Kotaro Hasegawa (Advantest): June 2023
- Albi Mema begins his doctoral research in Project P14: June 2023
- Start of Viktoria Ristovski in administrative support: May 2023
- Special session “Testing, Safety and Security on RISC-V” at IEEE ETS, with an accompanying survey paper: May 2023
- 2nd IMTR Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Test and Reliability at IEEE ETS, Venice, Italy: May 2023
- Munazza Sayed begins her doctoral research in Project P16: May 2023
- Stay abroad of Maik Betka (P8): three-month research stay at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland: April 2023
- Thorben Schey (P11) and Marc Rivinius (P20) begin their doctoral research: April 2023
- GS-IMTR ASIC sent to fabrication (GlobalFoundries 22 nm FD-SOI): April 2023
- End of the junior professorship of Hussam Amrouch, appointed full professor at TU Munich: March 2023
- Lecture-series talk by Prof. Baker Mohammad (Khalifa University), “Intelligent Memory for Efficient Hardware Accelerator”: February 2023
- Lecture-series talk by Prof. Paolo Bernardi (Politecnico di Torino), “Functional Testing Techniques”: January 2023
2022
- PhD Defense of Natalia Lylina (PA3): December 2022
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award to PA3 — Natalia Lylina et al., “A Hybrid Protection Scheme for Reconfigurable Scan Networks” (VTS 2021): November 2022
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award to P10 — Paul Genssler, Hussam Amrouch, “Brain-Inspired Computing for Wafer Map Defect Pattern Classification” (ITC 2021): November 2022
- 4th Annual Meeting of GS-IMTR: November 2022
- Selection of the Phase II projects: November 2022
- TestVis: Workshop on Visualization in Testing of Hardware, Software, and Manufacturing, co-located with IEEE VIS: October 2022
- Milestone Presentations of P1, P3, P4, P7, P9 and P10: October 2022
- PhD seminar moves to monthly in-person meetings at Advantest: September 2022
- Doctoral researchers of P1, P5 and PA3 visit Politecnico di Torino: September 2022
- Lecture-series talk by Prof. X. Sharon Hu (University of Notre Dame), “In-Memory Computing: from Devices to Applications”: September 2022
- Call for Phase II project proposals: August 2022
- First PhD Retreat of the GS-IMTR doctoral researchers: August 2022
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award Dinner: August 2022
- Lecture-series talk by Dr. Johann Knechtel (NYU Abu Dhabi), “2.5D and 3D Integration — Another Dimension Toward Secure Hardware”: August 2022
- Lecture-series talk by Dr. Lilas Alrahis (NYU Abu Dhabi), “Graph Neural Networks for Hardware Design”: August 2022
- Guest Professor Abhijit Chatterjee (Georgia Tech, USA): July–September 2022
- Lecture-series talk by Dr. Jinjun Xiong (University at Buffalo): July 2022
- GS-IMTR at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence: July 2022
- Milestone Presentation of Maik Betka (P8): July 2022
- Stay abroad of Peter Domanski (P3): three-month research stay at Duke University, USA: June 2022
- New M.Sc. Major “Intelligent Methods for Test and Reliability” approved in InfoTech: June 2022
- 1st IMTR Workshop on Intelligent Methods for Test and Reliability at IEEE ETS, Barcelona, Spain: May 2022
- All GS-IMTR doctoral researchers attend the Test Spring School: May 2022
- Milestone Presentation of Yiwen Liao (P6): April 2022★ Best Paper Award to PA3 — Natalia Lylina, at IEEE VTS: April 2022
- Best Poster Prize to PA3 — Natalia Lylina, at the DATE PhD Forum: March 2022
- GS-IMTR joint paper and Multi-Partner-Projects panel at DATE: March 2022
- Revision of the GS-IMTR Bylaws: January 2022
2021
- Keynote by Dr. Matthias Sauer (Advantest) at the Welcome Reception for International Students, University of Stuttgart: December 2021
- GS-IMTR Best Paper Award to P6 — Yiwen Liao et al., “Feature Selection Using Batch-Wise Attenuation and Feature Mask Normalization” (IJCNN 2021), and to P10 — Paul Genssler, Hussam Amrouch, “Brain-Inspired Computing for Wafer Map Defect Pattern Classification”: November 2021
- 3rd Annual Meeting of GS-IMTR: November 2021
- First talk of the International Speaker Series: Prof. Marilyn Wolf (University of Nebraska at Lincoln), “Perception and Computational Efficiency for Autonomous Vehicles”: November 2021
- GS-IMTR Retreat at Schloss Dagstuhl (first in-person meeting): October 2021
- Special session “Towards Reliable In-Memory Computing” at VLSI-SoC 2021: October 2021
- Hanieh Jafarzadeh (PA4) begins her doctoral research: August 2021
- Special session “System-Level Test: State of the Art and Challenges” at IOLTS: June 2021
- Paul Genssler (P10) begins his doctoral research: May 2021
- All GS-IMTR doctoral researchers attend the Test Spring School: April 2021
- Special session “Machine Learning for Semiconductor Reliability”, with several papers, at IEEE VTS: March 2021
- Denis Schwachhofer (P5) begins his doctoral research: March 2021
- Florian Klemme (P9) begins his doctoral research: February 2021
2020
- 2nd Annual Meeting of GS-IMTR: November 2020
- Peter Domanski (P3) begins his doctoral research: November 2020
- Paul Genssler elected spokesperson of the doctoral researchers: November 2020
- Start of the PhD mentoring role — Dr. Victor van Santen: October 2020
- Start of the bi-weekly PhD seminar: October 2020
- Maik Betka (P8) begins his doctoral research: August 2020
- Founding of the Research Group System Test and Reliability (STAR): July 2020
- Hussam Amrouch appointed junior professor: July 2020
- Sebastian Hasler (P4) begins his doctoral research: June 2020
- GS-IMTR Workshop at “Test and Reliability of Circuits and Systems” (TuZ), just before the first Covid lockdown: February 2020
- GS-IMTR presents a poster at the GI/ITG/GMM workshop: February 18, 2020 (on site)
- Andrés Lalama (P2), Yiwen Liao (P6) and Athanasios Gatzastras (P7) begin their doctoral research: January 2020
2019
- Nourhan Elhamawy (P1) begins her doctoral research: December 2019
- Kick-off and 1st Annual Meeting of GS-IMTR: November 2019
- Kick-off meeting of participants at Advantest: November 25, 2019 (on site)
- Kick-off colloquium of GS-IMTR: February 7, 2019 --> download flyer
Ilia Polian
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil.Institute of Computer Architecture and Computer Engineering