Bio:

Sebastian Fischmeister is currently Assistant Professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Waterloo, Canada. He received his MASc in Computer Science at the
Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and his Ph.D. degree at the
University of Salzburg, Austria. He was awarded the APART stipend in
2005 and worked as a research associate at the University of
Pennsylvania, USA, until 2008.

He performs systems research at the intersection of software
technology, distributed systems, and formal methods. His preferred
application areas are distributed real-time embedded systems in the
domain of automotive systems, avionics, and medical devices. He is now
working on the theory and application of state-based schedules for
adaptive systems and a monitoring/debugging/tracing framework for
time-sensitive systems.