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.
Can computers use less energy without compromising performance? That’s what computer scientists Ben van Werkhoven and Rob van Nieuwpoort from the Leiden Ins...
May 28, 2026 — Today, an article was published that we set out to write at the workshop on Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI held in...
May 05, 2026 - Today at the Sustainability Conference for Responsible Research Computing (SC4RC) hosted at CERN in Geneva, I had the pleasure of delivering...
March 25, 2026 - I travelled to Edinburgh in Scotland to attend a three-day workshop on Research Software Engineering in the Age of Generative AI organized ...
August 1, 2025 - A long-standing collaboration with the research group of Bernd Rieger (TU Delft) has resulted in the publication of our new method to improv...
May 13, 2025 – My co-author Steven van der Vlugt presented our paper titled “PowerSensor3: A Fast and Accurate Open Source Power Measurement Tool” at the In...
May 01, 2025 - Today, I visited the VU Amsterdam for a symposium on the occasion of Professor Henri Bal’s retirement. It was a great honor for me to be invi...
February 6, 2025 – Today, our office received an exciting delivery: two NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs, generously donated by the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program. T...
May 7, 2024 — As a result from a collaboration that started at the Lorentz Center Workshop in March 2022, our paper on how to apply the FAIR Principles (Fin...
April 5, 2024 — Finally, the Version 1.0 release is here! The software has been stable and ready for production use for quite some time now and after being i...
April 2, 2024 — As a result from a collaboration with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the paper about the ASTRA KernelKit has been published in the...
November 12, 2023 — I traveled to Denver, CO, together with my colleagues Alessio Sclocco, Stijn Heldens, and Floris-Jan Willemsen, to give a tutorial on En...
October 12, 2023 — Ben van Werkhoven gave a talk titled “Automatically optimizing GPU applications for performance and energy efficiency” at the Bits&Chi...
ACM Computing Surveys has published our paper on optimization techniques for GPU programming. The paper presents the first comprehensive overview of software...
SIAM CSE23 - SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23) was held in RAI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from Feb 26 to March 3. I dropped...
At the HPC Asia 2023 conference, I gave a talk in the Energy and resource efficiency of data centers (EREC) workshop. The talk provides an overview of how w...
March 7-11, 2022 — After preparations that spanned more than a year in total, the week of Lorentz Center workshop is finally here! For a long time, it was un...
November 2021 — Together with my colleagues, Alessio Sclocco, Stijn Heldens, and Floris-Jan Willemsen, we travelled to the latest edition of the Supercomputi...
