Jun 22, 2015
Organizers
Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede
Dr. Wim A. Vanderbauwhede received his PhD in Electrotechnical Engineering from the University of Gent, Belgium in 1996. Before returning to academic research in 2001, Dr Vanderbauwhede worked as an IC Design Engineer and Senior Technology R&D Engineer. From 2001-2004 he was Research Fellow at Strathclyde University.?Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Vanderbauwhede’s research focuses on improving the efficiency in High-Performance Computing, both in terms of application development — making parallel programming on heterogeneous systems easier for the end user — and in terms of computational efficiency: reducing the energy consumption per computation to improve the scalability.?He is an expert in FPGA, GPU and multicore parallel programming and in compilers and machine?architectures for heterogeneous manycore systems. His book High-Performance Computing using FPGAs?was published by Springer in March 2013. He has active collaborations on acceleration of Numerical Weather Predictions with Kyoto University and Aizu University (Japan) and Manchester University (UK) and on FPGA computing with University of Massachusetts (US). He currently leads a 2 Million GBP EPSRC project between Glasgow University, Heriot-Watt University and Imperial College London on compilation for heterogeneous manycore systems.
Dr Vanderbauwhede has published more than a hundred refereed conference and journal papers. He is an editorial board member for
IJRC and program committee member/reviewer for several international?conferences/journals.
Prof. Tetsuya Takemi
Prof. Tetsuya Takemi received his PhD and MSc from Kyoto University in 1999 and 1994 respectively.?From 1999-2004 he was Assistant Professor at Osaka University, from 2004-2007 Lecturer at Tokyo Institute of Technology and from 2007 Associate Professor at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute of Kyoto University.?From 2001-2002 he was a visiting scientist at National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States.
His research interests include mesoscale and microscale meteorology, environmental fluid dynamics, atmospheric convection and mesoscale meteorological modeling, in particular of severe local storms and heavy rain.?He is also studying on numerical simulations of atmospheric turbulence and dispersion over complex terrain and complex building configuration by developing an approach to couple mesoscale meteorological model and large-eddy simulation model.
Prof. Takemi has published more than eighty refereed conference and journal papers. He is a member of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Japan Geoscience Union, Japan Association for Wind Engineering, American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. He is the Chief Editor of SOLA, an online letter journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, and the Co-Chief Editor of Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan.
Prof. Sven-Bodo Scholz
Sven-Bodo Scholz received his Dr.rer.nat. and a German Habilitation from?the University of Kiel in 1996 and in 2004, respectively.
From 2004 – 2011 he was Senior Lecturer and later Reader at the University of Hertfordshire in England.?Currently, he is Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
Sven-Bodo Scholz’s research is driven by the desire to bridge the gap?between high-productivity programming tools and high-performance,
heterogeneous many-core systems by means of compilation technology. He has?made various contributions in the area of programming languages and?compilation technology including novel type systems, partial evaluation?techniques, memory management techniques and novel approaches to generic?programming. He has initiated and led several research projects that?focused around the design and implementation of programming systems, all of?which contributed to several ready-to-use systems in the public domain.
He was Co-I and P-I on several grants, nationally-funded, as well as EU-funded totalling?in excess of 3 Million GBP. He has authored over 100 publications, was editor of books?and special journal issues, and member of various program committees. He is a member?of the ACM and of IFIP working group 2.11. He has organised several workshops, symposia?and tutorial presentations and is member of the IFL steering committee.