Tuning the Tuner: Introducing Hyperparameter Optimization for Auto-Tuning
September 18, 2025 — Today at the IEEE eScience 2025 conference, I had the opportunity to present my latest work with Rob van Nieuwpoort and Ben van Werkhov...
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.
Best Paper Award at ICPP'25: Efficient Construction of Large Search Spaces for Auto-Tuning
September 8, 2025 — I am very excited to share that our paper “Efficient Construction of Large Search Spaces for Auto-Tuning” received the Best Paper Award ...
Floris-Jan wins CompSys Best Presentation 2025
May 22, 2025 – Today at the Dutch national CompSys conference, I gave a presentation about our new paper “Tuning the Tuner: Introducing Hyperparameter Optimi...
A methodology for comparing optimization algorithms for auto-tuning
May 30, 2024 — As a result from the collaborations between different auto-tuning research groups that was kickstarted at the Lorentz Center Workshop in March...
ICT.Open2023 Workshop on Energy-Aware HPC
April 19, 2023, Utrecht, the Netherlands – At the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, the annual ICT.Open conference hosted a workshop invited participants to delve into t...
Bayesian Optimization for auto-tuning GPU kernels
Supercomputing 2021 — I traveled to St. Louis to present my paper on the use of Bayesian Optimization for auto-tuning GPU kernels. This paper was accepted in...