Accelerated Computing research group

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

Assistant Professor, Group Leader

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 Willemsen

PhD Candidate

Floris-Jan is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University and the Netherlands eScience Center. His research focusses on intelligent, automated optimization of GPU software.

Skip Thijssen

Skip Thijssen

PhD Candidate

Skip is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University. His research focusses on energy efficient GPU Computing. Skip obtained his masters degree in the joint UvA-VU Computer Science master. For his thesis, Skip researched analytical performance models for GPU-based graph processing algorithms.

Alessio Sclocco

Alessio Sclocco

Research Software Engineer

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

Stijn Heldens

Research Software Engineer

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.

Graduated PhDs

PhD candidates who graduated from the Accelerated Computing research group

Stijn Heldens

Stijn Heldens

PhD Candidate
Richard Schoonhoven

Richard Schoonhoven

PhD Candidate