Richard Membarth

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Richard Membarth is a faculty member at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, where he holds the professorship for System-on-a-Chip and AI for Edge Computing. He is also affiliated with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) as a Senior Researcher and Team Leader for Compiler Technologies and High-Performance Computing, and with the Saarland University Computer Graphics Lab. His research spans GPU computing, domain-specific languages, and compilers.

• PhD from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (2013)
• Postgraduate diploma from Auckland University of Technology

His research focuses on:

• Parallel computer architectures and programming models
• Automatic code generation for embedded to HPC systems
• Image processing, computer graphics, and deep learning applications
• Domain-specific languages for performance-portable code

Recent publications highlight compiler design, GPU acceleration, and parallel algorithms. Scientific awards include the HiPEAC Paper Award (2018) and GPCE Best Paper Award (2015). Professional roles include organizing High-Performance Graphics conferences as Treasurer (2024-2025) and Papers Chair (2020).