Jens Knoop

Jens Knoop is a Full Professor at TU Wien, leading the Department of Information Systems Engineering (E194) and the Research Unit Compilers and Languages (E194-05). His roles include Head of Institute for Information Systems Engineering and membership in the Curriculum Commission for Informatics. He specializes in compiler design, program analysis, and embedded systems, with a focus on worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis and formal methods.

His research interests span optimizing compilers, programming languages, and real-time computing. Notable contributions include the Platin tool suite for WCET analysis and contributions to the T-CREST project on time-predictable multi-core architectures. He has authored and edited multiple influential publications, including proceedings of international conferences such as Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) and ARCS.

Professor Knoop has supervised numerous theses, including works on effect systems in Haskell, mutation testing in Rust, and robotic systems. He has received the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award (2002) for foundational work in compiler optimization.