Dr. Arne Heittmann

I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2003. My research at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute (University of Paderborn) focused on the development of resource-efficient integrated hardware architectures for neural associative memories.

My subsequent academic career included leadership roles in industrial research departments, such as the Corporate Research division of Infineon Technologies AG in Munich and the Advanced DRAM Core Circuits department at Qimonda AG, also in Munich. I also held a senior academic position at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University (as Senior Academic Councilor), as well as at the Peter Grünberg Institute at the Jülich Research Center.

In each of these roles, the multidisciplinary projects addressed fundamental scientific questions, ranging from the theoretical modeling of core components to their practical implementation in highly complex systems.

The body of my scientific work and research interests includes:
(i) circuits and systems for emerging nanoelectronic devices;
(ii) novel techniques for 3D chip stacking with high-density vertical interconnects for realizing highly interconnected components;
(iii) hardware architectures, circuits, and numerical strategies for simulating spike-based neuroscientific neural networks, highly interconnected dynamical systems, and artificial neural networks; and
(iv) neural architecture search, optimization, and evolutionary strategies.