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Since 2003 I am full professor for Design and Analysis of Communication Systems at the University of Twente, in the faculty for Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS).

Additional positions

·	Since 2012 I serve on the program council (“board”) of Point-One, a Dutch innovation program for high tech systems; as of January 1, 2013, Point-One has become a part of Foundation Holland High-Tech.

·	Throughout 2011, I have been serving on an advisory committee of the Province of Overijssel to shape the Innovation Policy for the Region Twente for the next 5 years.

·	Reviewer for projects and project proposals for the Artemis Joint Undertaking.

·	Regular external advisor for Computer Science courses at the Open University in Heerlen, the Netherlands.

·	Board member of the Dutch computer science research school ASCI (Advanced School on Computing and Imaging) since November 2005.

Past positions

In the period March 2009—February 2013, I have also been scientific director and chairman of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven. ESI was an independent public-private open innovation applied research institute for high-tech embedded systems, employing around 35 FTE. As of January 1, 2013, ESI has been acquired by TNO.

·	Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Breedned (2009-2011).

·	Head of the Department of Computer Science and Member of the management team of the EEMCS faculty at the University of Twente (August 2008-February 2009).

·	Member the management team of 3TU.NIRICT, the National Institute for Research on ICT (August 2008-February 2009).

·	Co-leading the 3TU Centre of Excellence on Dependable ICT Systems (CeDICT) as part of NIRICT (2005-2009).

·	Professor (C3) for Distributed Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany (October 1995-December 2002).

·	Lecturer at the University of Twente, in the Department of Computer Science (January 1990 through September 1995).

·	Visiting scientist in the Teletraffic Research Centre at the University of Adelaide in Australia (spring 1993)

Scientific memberships and honors

·	Fellow of the IEEE (see also this Dutch wikipedia page).

·	Member of the editorial board of the journal Performance Evaluation.

·	Chairman of the steering committee of the International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST).

·	Chairman of the steering committee of the performability workshop series (PMCCS).

·	Member of IFIP WG6.3 on "performance of communication systems" and of IFIP WG7.3 on "computer performance modeling and analysis".

·	Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), in particular of ACM Sigmetrics and ACM Sigcomm.

·	Member of the IEEE, in particular, of the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Communication Society.

·	Member of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and board member of the GI/ITG special interest group on performance modeling of computer and communication systems.

Research and publications

My personal research focuses on model-driven design of embedded computer-communication systems and the evaluation of their performance and dependability. Since 2000, I have also worked on stochastic model checking techniques. Lately, I have become interested in system design and engineering as a discipline, especially in relation to industrial applicability.

In the cause of my career, I have guided numerous master students through their final project. I have had the honor of acting more than 20 times as PhD advisor (“promotor”), at the RWTH Aachen and at the University of Twente; please find a full list here.

I wrote a textbook on performance evaluation of computer-communication systems (Wiley, 1998), and published 6+ conference proceedings (with IEEE and Springer) and did put together multi-author books on performability (Wiley, 2001) and on validation of stochastic systems (Springer, 2003). I published 125+ papers in journals and at (full-review) conferences; see DLDB, Google scholar, or the UT-based e-prints database. I have been chairman of a number of international conferences (TOOLS 2000, PNPM 2001, MMB 2001, QEST 2004, DSN/PDS 2005, PDMC 2006, PDMC 2007), have edited special issues for various journals, and have been member of numerous scientific program committees.

Teaching

At the UT, I have been teaching courses on computer networking and model-based performance and dependability evaluation of computer and communication systems in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Embedded Systems. In the past, at the RWTH Aachen, I also taught courses on Operating Systems, Computer Architecture and Distributed Systems, primarily for Computer Science students.

Origins and education

I was born on September 27, 1964, in Lichtenvoorde, a small town in the mid-eastern part of the Netherlands, famous as the hometown of the Zwarte Cross, and the town where composer/dj JunkieXL was born.

After having attended primary school, I attended the Scholengemeenschap Marianum (gymnasium) in Groenlo, a small city in the vicinity, the hometown of the famous Grolsch beer (the old name for Groenlo is Grol, thus explaining the name Grolsch). These days, Lichtenvoorde and Groenlo are part of the county Oost-Gelre.

I obtained my Ph.D. in 1991 and my M.Sc in 1986, both from the University of Twente. I did my final master project, in 1986, at the University of Dortmund, Germany.

Contact

Prof. Dr. Ir. Boudewijn R. Haverkort
University of Twente
Chair, Design and Analysis of Communication Systems
Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands.

Phone: +31 53 4898041
Email: b.r.h.m.haverkort-1234@utwente.nl (without -1234)
Room: Zilverling 5001