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Stijn Heldens wins ASCI Best Thesis Award 2024

May 23, 2025 – I was honored to receive ASCI’s Best PhD Thesis 2024 Award at CompSys’25! 🏆

Huge thanks to everyone at ASCI for the award and the CompSys25 organizers for making the conference such a great experience!

Of course, I could never have reached this milestone without the dedicated guidance of my PhD supervisors: Rob van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Ben van Werkhoven, and Pieter Hijma. Thanks to the Netherlands eScience Center for making my PhD research possible.

Credits to Skip Thijssen for the ceremony photos.

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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.