Sven Nitzsche studied electrical engineering and information technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, specializing in System-on-Chip design. During his studies, he was particularly interested in the architecture of microprocessors and hardware security. He wrote his master's thesis at the FZI on the topic of "Security and Feasibility of Remotely Configuring Intellectual Property" in the context of FPGAs.

Since 2018, he has been working at FZI as a research scientist and vice department manager of the Embedded Computing Systems (ECS) group of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Jürgen Becker. The group focuses on AI hardware, embedded neuromorphic computing, edge computing and embedded security. There is close cooperation with the KIT and various industrial partners in the domains of Automotive, Smart Health and Industry 4.0.

His personal research focus is on the acceleration of artificial intelligence and in particular of spiking neural networks using neuromorphic hardware as well as the application of AI to embedded systems.