Rate My Professor Christian Becker

Professor Christian Becker holds the position of Full Professor for Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, heading the Distributed Systems group within the Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS) since April 2022. Prior to this, he was Full Professor for Information Systems at the University of Mannheim from 2006 to 2022, during which he also served as Dean and Vice Dean of the Business School from 2018 to 2021. Becker began his academic career by joining the distributed systems group at the University of Stuttgart as a postdoc in 2001, following his graduation in Computer Science from the Universities of Karlsruhe and Kaiserslautern in 1996, his PhD from the University of Frankfurt in 2001, and his habilitation in Computer Science in 2004.

Becker's research specializes in distributed systems, context-aware computing, and architectures for adaptive systems, with applications in pervasive computing, edge computing, and self-organizing systems. He has authored more than 180 technical papers. Key recent publications include "Rethinking MAPE: Next Generation Adaptation Control for Learning Adaptive Systems" (Krupitzer, Henrichs, & Becker, 2024), "Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges" (Meuser et al., IEEE Internet Computing, 2024), "SmartGrid-NG: Blockchain Protocol for Secure Transaction Processing in Next Generation Smart Grid" (Vishwakarma, Das, Das, & Becker, 2024), "PerSiVal: On-Body AR Visualization of Biomechanical Arm Simulations" (Yu et al., IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 2024), "Performance and Usability Evaluation of Brainwave Authentication Techniques with Consumer Devices" (Arias-Cabarcos et al., ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2023), "An Overview on Approaches for Coordination of Platoons" (Lesch et al., IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022), and "Pervasive computing middleware: current trends and emerging challenges" (Becker et al., 2019). Becker has influenced the academic community through leadership positions such as member of the IEEE PerCom steering committee, general chair of IEEE PerCom in 2010, TPC chair of IEEE PerCom in 2016, and general chair of IEEE Mobile Data Management in 2007 and 2023.