{"id":13,"date":"2019-06-07T19:55:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T19:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobda.ece.ufl.edu\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-02-09T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:06:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/bobda\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"222\" height=\"260\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/bobda\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/655\/2019\/06\/bobda.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-123\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><br>Professor Christophe Bobda<br>ECE Department <br>University of Florida<br>Gainesville, FL 32611-6200<br>Office: 336A Larsen Hall<br>Research Lab: 316, 327 Larsen Hall<br>Phone: +1 352 294 2024<br>E-mail: cbobda(at)ece.ufl.edu<br>Office Hours: By Request (email)<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D., University of Paderborn, Germany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Diplom Informatics degree (MS), University of Paderborn, Germany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>License Informatics degree (BS), University of Yaounde, Cameroon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching and Research Areas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>System on Chip Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Embedded Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Computer Architecture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cybersecurity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resilient Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Embedded Imaging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robotics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biographical Sketch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Bobda received the Licence in mathematics from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, in 1992, the diploma of computer science and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in computer science from the University of Paderborn in Germany in 1999 and 2003 (In the chair of Prof. Franz J. Rammig) respectively. In June 2003 he joined the department of computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany as Post doc, under the direction of Prof J\u00c3\u00bcrgen Teich. Dr. Bobda received the best dissertation award 2003 from the University of Paderborn for his work on synthesis of reconfigurable systems using temporal partitioning and temporal placement. In 2005 Dr. Bobda was appointed assistant professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. There he set the chair for Self-Organizing Embedded Systems that he led until October 2007. From 2007 to 2010 Dr. Bobda was Professor at the University of Potsdam and leader of The working Group Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Profesor Bobda is Senior Member of the ACM. He is also in the program committee of several conferences (FPL, FPT, RAW, RSP, ERSA, RECOSOC, DRS), the DATE executive committee as proceedings chair (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). He served as reviewer of several journals (IEEE TC, IEEE TVLSI, Elsevier Journal of Microprocessor and Microsystems, Integration the VLSI Journal) and conferences (DAC, DATE, FPL, FPT, SBCCI, RAW, RSP, ERSA), as guest editor of the Elsevier Journal of Microprocessor and Microsystems and member of the editorial board of the Hindawi International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. Dr. Bobda is the author of one of the first most comprehensive books in the rapidly growing field of Reconfigurable Computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chip-in-aracaju.ufs.br\/archives\/Best%20papers%20-%20Chip%20in%20Aracaju.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Test Of Time SBCCI 2014<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hipeac.org\/research\/paper-awards\/2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HiPEAC Paper at DAC 2012<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/multimedialab.elis.ugent.be\/icdsc2011\/node\/27.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3rd- Best Paper ICDSC 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sponsors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Science Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfg.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German Research Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/afsffp.sysplus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Air Force Research Lab<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfh-ufa.org\/hilfe\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German-French University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/european-union\/index_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">European Union<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Education Teaching and Research Areas Biographical Sketch Professor Bobda received the Licence in mathematics from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, in 1992, the diploma of computer science and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in computer science from the University of Paderborn in Germany in 1999 and 2003 (In the chair of Prof. Franz J. 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