Sebastian Steinhorst

Scientific Report on TUM-IAS Fellowship 

The Focus Group Embedded Systems and Internet of Things was founded in November 2016 when Sebastian Steinhorst joined TUM as a Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professor and became a Fellow of the TUM-IAS. He received tenure in January 2020 and became an Alumnus Fellow. full report

Short CV

Prof. Steinhorst studied computer science at Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main/Germany and received his Ph.D. degree (summa cum laude) there in 2011. Between 2011 and 2016, he was with the TUM CREATE research center in Singapore where he was leading the Embedded Systems Group as Principal Investigator since 2015 and previously held Senior Research Fellow and Research Fellow positions. From May till September 2016, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University in Denmark. Since November 2016, Prof. Steinhorst is a Rudolf Moessbauer Tenure Track Assistant Professor at TUM.


Selected Awards

  • 2019, ACM TODAES Best Paper Award
  • 2013, 2015, Four European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) Paper Awards for co-authored papers. Three in 2013, one in 2015.
  • 2011, Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements of the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics of the Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main/Germany
  • 2010, edacentrum EDA Achievement Award 2010 with the VeronA project team

Research Interests

The research of Prof. Steinhorst centers around design methodology and hardware/software co-design of distributed embedded systems in the application areas of Internet of Things, Smart Energy and Automotive. Major aspects are architecture, modelling, verification, efficiency, dependability and security of such systems, considering all abstraction levels.


Selected Publications

  • Mundhenk, Philipp; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Fahmy, Suhaib A.; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Security analysis of automotive architectures using probabilistic model checking. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Design Automation Conference on - DAC '15, ACM Press, 2015.
  • Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Kauer, Matthias; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Smart Cells for Embedded Battery Management. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications, IEEE, 2014.

Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow

2019

  • Lamprecht, Alexander; Baumann, Martin; Massier, Tobias; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Decentralized Non-Neighbor Active Charge Balancing in Large Battery Packs. 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Lamprecht, Alexander; Garikapati, Ananth; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Enhancing Battery Pack Capacity Utilization in Electric Vehicle Fleets via SoC-Preconditioning. 2019 22nd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), IEEE, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Mrowca, Artur; Nocker, Martin; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Günnemann, Stephan: Learning Temporal Specifications from Imperfect Traces Using Bayesian Inference. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019 on - DAC '19, ACM Press, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Mrowca, Artur; Nocker, Martin; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Günnemann, Stephan: Learning Temporal Specifications from Imperfect Traces Using Bayesian Inference. Proceedings of the 56th Annual Design Automation Conference 2019 on - DAC '19, ACM Press, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Design Automation for Energy Storage Systems. In: Design Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems. Springer International Publishing, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Kauer, Matthias; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Optimal Dimensioning and Control of Active Cell Balancing Architectures. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 68 (10), 2019, 9632-9646 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Probstl, Alma; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Cost/Privacy Co-optimization in Smart Energy Grids. 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Regnath, Emanuel; Steinhorst, Sebastian: CUBA: Chained Unanimous Byzantine Agreement for Decentralized Platoon Management. 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2019 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Zimmermann, Thomas; Mora, Mathias; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Mueller-Gritschneder, Daniel; Jossen, Andreas: Analysis of Dissipative Losses in Modular Reconfigurable Energy Storage Systems Using SystemC TLM and SystemC-AMS. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 24 (4), 2019, 1-33 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2018

  • Korkan, Ege; Kaebisch, Sebastian; Kovatsch, Matthias; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Sequential Behavioral Modeling for Scalable IoT Devices and Systems. 2018 Forum on Specification & Design Languages (FDL), IEEE, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Lamprecht, Alexander; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Improving fast charging efficiency of reconfigurable battery packs. 2018 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Mrowca, Artur; Pramsohler, Thomas; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Baumgarten, Uwe: Automated interpretation and reduction of in-vehicle network traces at a large scale. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Design Automation Conference on - DAC '18, ACM Press, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Multi-Pattern Active Cell Balancing Architecture and Equalization Strategy for Battery Packs. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design - ISLPED '18, ACM Press, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Park, Sangyoung; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Design automation for battery systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design - ICCAD '18, ACM Press, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Probstl, Alma; Park, Sangyoung; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: SOH-aware active cell balancing strategy for high power battery packs. 2018 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), IEEE, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Regnath, Emanuel; Steinhorst, Sebastian: SmaCoNat: Smart Contracts in Natural Language. 2018 Forum on Specification & Design Languages (FDL), IEEE, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Regnath, Emanuel; Steinhorst, Sebastian: LeapChain. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design - ICCAD '18, ACM Press, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Saidi, Selma; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Hamann, Arne; Ziegenbein, Dirk; Wolf, Marko: Special Session: Future Automotive Systems Design: Research Challenges and Opportunities. 2018 International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), IEEE, 2018 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2017

  • Kauer, Matthias; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Rapid Analysis of Active Cell Balancing Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 36 (4), 2017, 694-698 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Mundhenk, Philipp; Paverd, Andrew; Mrowca, Artur; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Fahmy, Suhaib A.; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Security in Automotive Networks. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 22 (2), 2017, 1-27 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Kauer, Matthias; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Modular Active Charge Balancing for Scalable Battery Packs. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 25 (3), 2017, 974-987 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Shivaraman, Nitin; Easwaran, Arvind; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Efficient decentralized active balancing strategy for smart battery cells. Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2017, IEEE, 2017 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Shreejith, Shanker; Mundhenk, Philipp; Ettner, Andreas; Fahmy, Suhaib A.; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: VEGa: A High Performance Vehicular Ethernet Gateway on Hybrid FPGA. IEEE Transactions on Computers 66 (10), 2017, 1790-1803 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Waszecki, Peter; Mundhenk, Philipp; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Karri, Ramesh; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Automotive Electrical and Electronic Architecture Security via Distributed In-Vehicle Traffic Monitoring. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 36 (11), 2017, 1790-1803 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )

2016

  • Lukasiewycz, Martin; Kauer, Matthias; Steinhorst, Sebastian: Synthesis of Active Cell Balancing Architectures for Battery Packs. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 35 (11), 2016, 1876-1889 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Sagstetter, Florian; Waszecki, Peter; Steinhorst, Sebastian; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Multischedule Synthesis for Variant Management in Automotive Time-Triggered Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 35 (4), 2016, 637-650 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )
  • Steinhorst, Sebastian; Kauer, Matthias; Meeuw, Arne; Narayanaswamy, Swaminathan; Lukasiewycz, Martin; Chakraborty, Samarjit: Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Framework for Smart Cells in Scalable Battery Packs. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 21 (4), 2016, 1-26 more… BibTeX Full text ( DOI )