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The Computer
Engineering (CE) is a division within the Electrical
Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) faculty. The TU Delft
Computer Engineering
deals with the architecture, design, development, testing, and evaluation of hardware and
software for computers and networks. Our principal goal is to perform top research and to provide
one of the best bachelor, master of science, and Phd electrical and computer engineering university studies in Europe.
In our web pages you can find information regarding admissions to the masters of science (MS) and PhD graduate programs,
scholarships, fellowships, studentships, research, courses, and publications authored by members, and students of computer engineering.
You will also find information regarding faculty, staff, post doctoral fellows,
visitors, alumni/ae, and
Ph.D.
and MSc students.
Finally, you can find information regarding some of the companies our alumni/ae have
created and some ways we have fun
together after working hours.
Research: The computer engineering lab brings together faculty, researchers,
and students from computer science and electrical engineering in a broad
program of research, development, and experimentation. Our members pursue
innovations for computer technology used in everyday human activities to
highly sophisticated super-computers. The two main driving forces in our
research are excellence and relevance to society. Our members and alumni/ae
have been instrumental in developing innovations for short and long term
information technology improvements. They have received more that 60 international
awards and distinctions
(e.g., outstanding dissertation awards, best paper awards, outstanding innovation
awards...). We believe that academic research should also have a strong industrial
impact and that the technology is transferred from academia to the industry.
Numerous ideas developed by laboratory members and alumni/ae have been
implemented in commercially available products. We collaborate(d) with worldwide
leading companies such as IBM, Intel, Philips, Nokia, to name a few, and
have developed innovations that have been incorporated in several of their
products. Several CE lab members have been personally involved in leading
roles in the research, design, and implementation of top of the line computers.
A dozen of start-ups
have been initiated by our members and our alumni in the past 10 or so years.
We work on hardware, software, networks and we also perform speculative
research (that is, research with long term application scope). More specifically
we perform research in the following areas:
- Hardware:
Computer architecture, microarchitectures, digital design, parallel vector
and media processors, embedded processors, SoCs, VLSI design, computer
arithmetic, low power designs, reconfigurable processors, feed forward
neural networks (threshold logic), memory and logic testing, design for
testability.
- Software:
backend compilers, system software, software for automatic synthesis,
performance and software tools, hardware software co-design, software
simulators, code instrumentations and performance enhancement tolls,
design space exploration software for computer architectures and
machine organizations, placement and routing algorithms, physical
desing, binary translators.
- Networks:
Computer architecture for Network processors, interconnection networks, internet
and web processing, mixed optical/electronic switches, distributed
processing, ubiquitous (i.e., anywhere and anytime) and unobtrusive (i.e.,
without much user intervention) communication environments.
- Speculative
research: nano computing, chaotic computational systems,
threshold logic processors, non conventional computer architectures,
interracting migrating processes.
Education: Computer Engineering is interdisciplinary incorporating both Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering studies. Consequently, our education
program includes topics for both computer software and hardware. We are teaching courses on how
to build and operate software and hardware or computers used in everyday human activities to high
performance supercomputers used by scientists to resolve sophisticated complex problems.
Computer engineering is also involved in teaching computer networks, Internet, distributed and web computing.
We teach in the TU Delft electrical engineering, computer science, and applied physics bachelor (BS) program.
We also teach in the graduate master of science (MSc) and Phd computer engineering program.
More specifically, we teach the programming, digital design, computer architecture and embedded systems courses
in the bachelor program. In the graduate programs we teach advanced courses in computer architecture, logic design,
computer arithmetic, hardware design languages, testing, multiprocessor systems, media processing, and advanced
system design and programming techniques. Also we teach courses on how to start-up your own company and are
involved in the development of new computer software and hardware related courses. We are heavily involved in
the guiding of MSc theses on both software and hardware topics and on the international (EU or not)
student exchange programs. In essence we are involved with anything that has to do with computer software and hardware.
We are involved in teaching how the software and hardware works but also on how to actually program and design computers.
Finally we teach students on how to build up and run a company that produces software and/or computer hardware.
Location and Social Life:
Our Computer Engineering Bachelor, Master of Science (MS) and Phd
students have an easy access to other parts of Europe as a number of
European cities are easily accessible from the University campus.
Computer engineering is located in the
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
(EEMCS)
faculty building. Delft is located in South Holland (the Netherlands, a
European Union (EU) country), and it is 12 km from the Hague and
Rotterdam, 60 km from Amsterdam (50 minutes by train), 170 km for
Brussels, the EU capital (accessible in 2 hours by train), and 470 km
from Paris (accessible in 3.5 hours by train). Our students, staff
members and professors, also are involved in numerous
social activities
close to the TU Delft campus.
Graduate program contact person: Georgi Gaydadjiev
Management assistant: Lidwina Tromp
Telephone: +31 15 2786196
Fax: +31 15 2784898
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