Martijn Rutten

Martijn J. Rutten, PhD
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Martijn Rutten was born on October 19, 1973 in Rumpt, The Netherlands. In 1998, he obtained his MSc. in Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology on modeling a 3D graphics pipeline for the 64-bit TriMedia processor. This work, carried out at Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, introduced him to media processing and system architecture. Afterwards, Martijn joined Philips Research and took part in the definition of a heterogeneous multiprocessor SoC subsystem, called Eclipse. This culminated in a 3-month visit to Bangalore, India to transfer Eclipse technology and simulation models to Philips Semiconductors. Martijn obtained a PhD. degree on the Eclipse achitecture in 2007 at the University of Amsterdam.

From 2002 onwards, Martijn's research activities moved to execution architecture of media-processing systems. Hereto, Martijn spent four months at the Philips' Digital Systems Laboratory (PDSL) to develop an overview of the execution architecture of DVD recorder systems. From September 2004, Martijn worked as system architect in the Chief technology Office (CTO) of NXP Semiconductors, formerly Philips Semiconductors. At NXP, Martijn was involved in the design of multiprocessor SoC subsystems from an embedded software perspective. As a side activity, Martijn initiated his first open source project, called TimeDoctor, visualizing the execution behavior of (embedded) software. Presently, Martijn is taking on a next challenge as co-founder of Vector Fabrics, a technology start-up company in Eindhoven.

Whenever Martijn is not at work, he is most likely to be found in his kayak exploring white-water rivers in remote corners of the world.