Dirk Koch

Dirk Koch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He specializes in reconfigurable computing, FPGA architecture, and hardware acceleration. His research addresses challenges in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), high-level synthesis, and stream processing. He leads the Advanced Processor Technology group and contributes to the Digital Futures Institute for Data Science and AI.

• Education: Doctorate in Computer Engineering
• Affiliations: Centre for Digital Trust and Society, EPSRC Functional Oxide Reconfigurable Technologies Programme

His work focuses on optimizing FPGA performance, reducing power consumption, and advancing reconfigurable hardware systems. Recent projects include bitstream manipulation frameworks, runtime stream processing pipelines, and FPGA fabric optimization techniques. He has collaborated extensively with industry partners like AMD-Xilinx.

Dirk Koch has supervised 11 research projects, including work on clock region process variation analysis and FPGA virus scanning. He holds grants from EPSRC and has published 62 peer-reviewed works.