Wilfried Elmenreich studied computer science at the Vienna University of Technology where he received his master's degree in 1998. He became a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Computer Engineering at Vienna University of Technology in 1999. He received his doctoral degree with distinction on the topic of time-triggered sensor fusion in 2002. From 1999 to 2007 he was the chief developer of the time-triggered fieldbus protocol TTP/A and the Smart Transducer Interface standard.[1]
In 2003, he started the international Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES),[2] which has since taken place annually. In 2004, he organized the Second IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics (ICCC) in Vienna.[3]
Elmenreich was a visiting researcher at the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee in 2005 and at the CISTER/IPP-Hurray Research Unit at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto in 2007. By the end of 2007, he moved to the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt to become a senior researcher at the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems. Working in the area of cooperative relaying, he published two patents together with Helmut Adam and Christian Bettstetter.[4][5]
One result of the work on self-organizing systems yielded an open-source research tool named FREVO.[6]
In 2008, he received Habilitation in the area of Computer Engineering from Vienna University of Technology.
In Winter term 2012-2013 he was professor of complex systems engineering at the University of Passau. He has held a Professor of Smart Grids position at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt since April 2013. His research projects [7] also affiliate him with the Lakeside Labs research cluster in Klagenfurt.
Wilfried Elmenreich is a member of the senate of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Senior Member of IEEE and counselor of Klagenfurt's IEEE student branch.[8]
In 2012, he organized the international Advent Programming Contest.[9]
Wilfried was editor of 4 books and published over 100 papers in the field of networked and embedded systems. He maintains the research blogs "Self-Organizing Networked Systems",[10] "The Smart Grid"[11] and "Networking Embedded Systems".[12]
