Hans Vandierendonck

Hans Vandierendonck is Professor in High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing in the school of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Queen’s University Belfast He is a Fellow of the Queen’s Institute for Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT). His research interests are in compilers, runtime systems and architectures for parallel systems with special attention to the programmability of such systems. Hans also has a vested interested in computer architecture, and particularly in cache architecture, prediction and performance evaluation. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed conference and journal contributions. He has served in programme committees for top conferences in his area (SC, ICS, IPDPS, ICPP, CCGrid), and regularly reviews for leading journals (ACM TACO, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, JPDC and Parallel Computing). He has fulfilled various roles in conference organisation: he is/was finance chair of IEEE CLUSTER 2018, programme co-chair of Track 9 at Euro-Par 2017, student travel grant chair at HPCA 2016, and publicity chair of HiPEAC 2009 and ISCA 2010. He was invited to lecture at the 2012 SICSA Summer School on Advances in Programming Languages at Heriot-Watt University and at the 2018 EPSRC-funded Manycore Summer School in Glasgow. His research has received competitive funding from the EU FP7 and H2020 programmes, the EC Maria Slodowska Curie Fellowship scheme, EPSRC and industry. Hans received the IBM Belgium Prize for Computer Science in 2000 for his graduation thesis and in 2004 for his PhD dissertation. His graduation thesis also received the Jozef Plateau prize from the Alumni Engineers Ghent in 2000. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of ACM, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the EPSRC College of Peer Reviewers.