About Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Tauner, BSc

University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
Department of Electronic Engineering
Research Group Embedded Systems
Höchstädtplatz 6
A-1200 Wien, Austria


Stefan Tauner was born 1983 in Vienna. After graduating from the Federal Higher Technical Institute Schellinggasse in 2003 and completing alternative civilian service, he began to study Computer Engineering (in the bachelor program) at the Vienna University of Technology. He continued the master program in 2009 which he finished with a thesis about unification of sensor data retrieval in mobile robots.

In fall 2013 he joined the Josef Ressel Center for Verification of Embedded Computing Systems at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien working in cooperation with Infineon Technologies Austria AG on bridging the gap between post-silicon validation and pre-silicon verification. From September 2014 until spring 2018 he additionally supported the research on automating fault injection in FPGA designs in collaboration with Siemens within the same project. From May to September 2018 he served the MA23 project ESprESSO-IT with his knowledge on safe and secure embedded systems.

He was accepted as Phd candidate in the Doctoral College Resilient Embedded Systems jointly run by the UAS Technikum Wien and TU Wien.

Besides his research he was also teaching bachelor and master students in various courses on operating systems and low-level programming.

In his free time he contributes to various free and open source projects such as coreboot.

Stefan Tauner left the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien in 2023.