Research Team
Our group conducts interdisciplinary research spanning the areas of High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, Optimization Algorithms, Green Computing, and Software Engineering.
Ben van Werkhoven
Ben van Werkhoven is assistant professor at LIACS and head of the Accelerated Computing research group. His research interests lie in High Performance Computing (HPC), software optimization, automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning), energy efficiency, programming models, performance modeling, and the acceleration of scientific applications.
Floris-Jan Willemsen
Floris-Jan is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University and the Netherlands eScience Center. His research focusses on intelligent, automated optimization of GPU software.
Alessio Sclocco
I have a PhD in Computer Science, and work as a Research Software Engineer at the Netherlands eScience Center. My research interests include high-performance computing, many-core accelerators, and auto-tuning.
Stijn Heldens
I'm a Dutch computer scientist, currently working as a Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the Netherlands eScience Center and also serving as a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam. I enjoy scientific research where my interests lie in high-performance computing, with a particular focus on parallel algorithms, distributed systems, programming languages/compilers, and GPU programming.
Richard Schoonhoven
Richard is currently a PhD candidate with the Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. His work focuses on optimizing high-throughput imaging pipelines, both on the software side with gradient-based and blind optimization algorithms, and on the hardware side by tuning GPU kernels. He also works with researchers at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France, and on the low-frequency array pipeline.