Nicolas NAVET has been a professor at the University of Luxembourg since May 2012. He has served as head of the Department of Computer Science from February 2023 to March 2025, following his role as deputy head from July 2020. He was also the course director of the Bachelor in Applied Technology (BINFO) from January 2013 to September 2017. Formerly, from 1996 to 2012, he was with INRIA in France, as doctoral candidate, researcher then head of a research group in the field of real-time embedded systems.
His primary goal is to contribute to the development of techniques, tools, and computing platforms that enable the creation of provably safe embedded electronic architectures in a time-, resource-, and cost-efficient manner. Since the mid-1990s, he been involved in the design and development of critical embedded systems, focusing on systems with stringent performance and safety requirements. Currently, his work focuses on leveraging design-space exploration and machine learning to further automate and enhance the design of automotive and aerospace embedded architectures.
He has had the privilege of collaborating on numerous exciting projects with OEMs and Tier1 suppliers in the automotive and aerospace, both in academia and through RealTime-at-Work (RTaW), the company he founded in 2007. RTaW specializes in electronic architecture design automation tools that support the development of provably safe and optimized mission-critical embedded systems for land, air and space vehicles.
He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin (1993) and a PhD in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (1999).