Stefan Rohringer, born in Vienna in 1964, is a Graduate Engineer ("Diplomingenieur") in Information Sciences and holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Computer Science from the State University of Delaware, USA. Since 1999 Mr. Rohringer has headed the Graz Development Center of Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Austria's strongest research company. Mr. Rohringer has been deputy CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Infineon Technologies Austria AG since 2014 and has thus fundamentally influenced Infineon Austria's research and development activities. He has also made important contributions to the corporate deployment of Infineon Technologies Romania & CO SCS as a Supervisory Board member, serving since 2011. In addition to his roles at Infineon Austria, Stefan Rohringer has also been chairman of the Research and Development Industrial Forum of the Federation of Austrian Industry in Styria since 2012. Mr. Rohringer is also head of the working group R&D and Innovation for Industry 4.0 of the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology.