Benny Åkesson

Benny Åkesson is a Professor by Special Appointment at the University of Amsterdam, holding the Chair of Design Methodologies for Cyber-physical Systems since 2019. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at ESI (TNO) in Eindhoven. His research focuses on design methodologies for cyber-physical systems, particularly model-based engineering and real-time systems. Åkesson has authored over 60 peer-reviewed papers and two books on memory controllers for real-time embedded systems. He has held positions at Eindhoven University of Technology, Czech Technical University, and CISTER/INESC TEC in Porto.

Education: MSc from Lund Institute of Technology (2005), PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology (2010).

Research interests span cyber-physical systems, real-time systems, and embedded systems design. Notable contributions include work on mixed-criticality scheduling, memory controllers, and real-time resource management. Awards include the Outstanding Paper Award at RTNS 2019 and Best Paper Award at ESTIMedia 2015.

Labs/Teams: Active in CISTER/INESC TEC Research Unit and ESI (TNO), collaborating on projects involving real-time embedded systems and cyber-physical architectures.