Accelerated Computing research group
Stijn Heldens

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.

Best Paper Award at Euro-PAR 2024: Bringing Auto-tuning to HIP

August 28, 2024 — I traveled to Madrid, Spain, to present our paper titled “Bringing Auto-tuning to HIP: Analysis of Tuning Impact and Difficulty on AMD and ...

CompSys Best Presentation Award for Kernel Launcher

May 27, 2024 - At the Dutch national CompSys conference, I gave a presentation about the paper “Kernel Launcher: C++ library for creating optimal-performance...

Stijn Heldens receives PhD degree

March 6, 2024 — Stijn Heldens has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Parallel Programming Systems for Scalable Scientific Computing” at the Agniete...

Kernel Launcher: C++ library for creating optimal-performance portable CUDA applications

IPDPS 2023 - I traveled to St. Petersburg Florida to present our new paper on Kernel Launcher at iWAPT2023, the International Workshop on Automatic Performan...

Lightning: Scaling the GPU Programming Model Beyond a Single GPU

IPDPS 2022 - I presented my paper on Lightning, a programming model that allows you to create applications for GPU clusters in way that is very similar to de...