Oliver Bringmann is division manager of the research division Intelligent Systems and Production Engineering (ISPE) and department manager of the research group "Microelectronic System Design" at FZI Karlsruhe in Germany. He studied computer science at the University of Karlsruhe and received the doctoral degree (PhD) in computer science from the University of Tübingen in 2001. He is responsible for acquisition of public and industrial funded research projects and has successfully coordinated several European and national public funded projects. Furthermore, he is responsible for the development of tools and methods for electronic system level (ESL) design using virtual prototyping and he is driving the technology transfer of ESL-based design methodologies into German industry. He is responsible for the FZI Living Lab mobileIT/Sat-Nav.

Research interests:
- Design and analysis of distributed embedded systems and systems-on-chip
- Modeling, refinement and analysis of embedded software
- Automated architectural exploration using virtual prototyping
- Model-based system integration and verification
- Design and architecture of autonomic systems-on-chip
- Reliability-driven embedded system design
- Robustness validation and virtual qualification
- Simulation of AUTOSAR software components
- Energy-efficient driving, control and operation strategies for electric vehicles