M.Sc. Kay Heider

• Real-Time Operating Systems
• Hardware-Software Co-Design
• Emerging Memory Technologies
• Non-Volatile Memory

• WiSe 25/26
  • Rech­ner­struk­tu­ren
  • Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
• SoSe 2025 Rech­ner­ar­chi­tek­tur
• WiSe 24/25 Rech­ner­struk­tu­ren
• SoSe 2024 Rech­ner­ar­chi­tek­tur

If you are interested in real-time operating systems, microcontrollers or in general hardware-software codesign topics, feel free to contact me. Some possible thesis topics of mine can be found here.

Completed Theses

• Performance Optimization for Hardware-Aware Implementations of Disaggregated Neural Networks
  02/2025, Master Thesis
• Implementation of Shared Resource Access Protocols for Earliest Deadline First Scheduling
  04/2025, Bachelor Thesis
• Timing-Sensitive Synchronous Communications in Microcontroller Networks
  09/2025, Bachelor Thesis
• Representation of Game-Based Digital Circuit Designs
  03/2026, Bachelor Thesis
• Energy-Aware Task Profiling on ESP32
  04/2026, Student research project

2026

• Deductive Verification for Earliest Deadline First Scheduler Implementations
  Daniel Kuhse, Junjie Shi, Jan Duy Thien Pham, Kay Heider, Marcus Völker, Kuan-Hsun Chen, Jian-Jia Chen
  CoRR abs/2607.26927
  Paper (Open Access)
• Releaser Design and Schedulability Analysis for Care-Taking Tasks in Real-Time Systems
  Nils Hölscher, Kay Heider, Georg von der Brüggen, Mario Günzel, Kuan-Hsun Chen, Jian-Jia Chen
  2026 IEEE 32nd Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS)
  Paper
• Jump Like A Squirrel: Optimized Execution Step Order for Anytime Random Forest Inference
  Daniel Biebert, Christian Hakert, Kay Heider, Daniel Kuhse, Sebastian Buschjäger, Jian-Jia Chen
  CoRR abs/2603.01588
  Paper (Open Access)

2025

• LazyTick: Lazy and Efficient Management of Job Release in Real-Time Operating Systems
  Kay Heider, Christian Hakert, Kuan-Hsun Chen, Jian-Jia Chen
  In International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2025
  Paper (Open Access) Slides Poster
• LB: WCET-Aware Partitioning and Allocation of Disaggregated Networks for Multicore Systems
  Junjie Shi, Christian Hakert, Kay Heider, Mario Günzel, Nils Hölscher, Daniel Kuhse, Jian-Jia Chen, Logan Kenwright, Sobhan Chatterjee, Nathan Allen, Partha Roop
  In International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 2025
  Paper (Open Access)
• CHRONOS: Compensating Hardware Related Overheads with Native Multi Timer Support for Real-Time Operating Systems
  Kay Heider, Christian Hakert, Kuan-Hsun Chen and Jian-Jia Chen
  CoRR abs/2503.01444
  Paper (Open Access)
• R⁴: A Racetrack Register File with Runtime Software Reconfiguration
  Christian Hakert, Shuo-Han Chen, Kay Heider, Roland Kühn, Yun-Chih Chen, Jens Teubner and Jian-Jia Chen
  CoRR abs/2502.20775
  Paper (Open Access)

2024

• TEACH: Transferable RTOS Education with Accessible MicroController Hardware
  Christian Hakert, Kay Heider, Daniel Biebert, Kuan-Hsun Chen and Jian-Jia Chen
  In RTSS@Work 2024 as part of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2024
  Paper (Open Access)
• Towards Non-Volatile Memory Wear-Leveling In (Timing)-Critical Systems
  Christian Hakert, Kay Heider, Junjie Shi and Jian-Jia Chen
  Workshop on OPtimization for Embedded and ReAl-time systems (OPERA)
  co-located with the 45th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2024
  Paper (Open Access)