Guillermo Payá Vayá

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guillermo Payá Vayá leads the Chair for Chip Design for Embedded Computing at Technical University of Braunschweig's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Physics. His research focuses on processor architecture design, FPGA/ASIC implementations, and optimization techniques for embedded systems, particularly in high-performance, low-power, and radiation-hardened computing domains.

Primary research interests include:

• Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors (ASIPs) and compiler co-design
• Radiation effects characterization and fault-tolerant hardware
• Ultra-low-power processor architectures for embedded AI
• Hardware acceleration of neural networks and computer vision algorithms
• Memory subsystem optimization and parallel computing techniques

Recent publications demonstrate strong emphasis on radiation-hardened electronics (35% of recent works), AI accelerator design (27%), and ultra-low-power systems (20%), with growing interest in biomedical applications. Experimental validation through FPGA prototyping and semiconductor testing is a consistent methodology across research domains.

Leads research team investigating:

• Radiation-tolerant FPGA architectures (Trumann, Weide-Zaage)
• Vector processor optimization (Gesper, Thieu)
• Nano-scale controller design (Weißbrich)
• AI-hardware co-design (Kautz, Beyer)