News HPDC group
Our paper “Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming” has been published by ACM Computing Surveys (2023) under open access, see here. It is authored by Pieter Hijma, Stijn Heldens, Alessio Sclocco, Ben Van Werkhoven, and Henri Bal.
Jacopo Urbani has been promoted to the rank of associative professor, starting 1 April 2023.
We have won an outstanding paper award at RTSS2022 for the paper “Jellyfish: Timely Inference Serving for Dynamic Edge Networks” by Vinod Nigade, Pablo Bauszat, Henri Bal & Lin Wang
Bojan Simoski defended his PhD thesis “Untangling the Puzzle of Digital Health Interventions: Exploring the user-acceptance and effectiveness of digital health interventions based on computerized intervention components” on 31 January 2023, see here.
Francesc Verdugo started as new Assistant Professor on Computational Science in our group in August 2022.
We have won a “Best paper for novelty” award at the PETRA (PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments) 2022 conference in Corfu for the paper “User Preferences in Occupational Sedentary Behaviour Digital Interventions: Design and Evaluation of a Low-Intrusive Software Tool,” by Bojan Simoski, Michel Klein, Aart Van Halteren and Henri Bal
The Advanced School for Computing and Imaging (ASCI) has appointed Henri Bal as (first) Honorary Member, “in appreciation for his continuous contributions to ASCI since its foundation.” (June 2022)
Lin Wang, Assistant Professor in the HPDC group, has received a Google Research Scholar Award, for his work on data center in-network computing.
Roshan Das, Bram Veenboer, and Hamid Bazoubandi defended their PhD theses in 2021, see here.
Guilherme Apostolo started as PhD student on Scalable Real-time Computations for Video Data Analytics, in the new NWO project with the UvA and Schiphol
Our former PhD student Chris Broekema has won the Young eScientist Award 2020 of the Netherlands eScience Center.
We have two vacancies for PhD students on Computation Offloading for Distributed Sensor Applications in a new NWO project. (Application deadline is September 24, 2020)
We have papers accepted at SC20, Euro-Par 2020, ACM/IEEE SEC’20, IEEE SSCI and in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing journal.
Henri Bal and Alexandru Iosup have received a research grant of €K 645 from the NWO KLEIN2 program for a proposal called “Computation Offloading for Distributed Sensor Applications”. Their teams will work together to study how to process the huge amount of data that will be generated by sensors from smart phones and the Internet of Things.
Chris Broekema has defended his PhD thesis “Commodity compute- and data-transport system design in modern large-scale distributed radio telescopes” on 28 September 2020.
The NWO domain Applied and Engineering Sciences has granted €750.000 subsidy to the project proposal “Real-Time Video Surveillance Search” by Cees Snoek (UvA) and Henri Bal. Three PhD students and a software engineer will work on advanced large-scale computer vision, together with a consortium of 8 institutions around Schiphol Airport. See here for more details.
Jacopo Urbani, Ceriel Jacobs, and others have won a best resource paper award at the ISWC 2019 conference for their work on the VLog rule-based reasoner
We have new papers accepted at IEEE BIG Data 2019 and in the Astronomy and Computing journal.
We have four new PhD students working in the area of High Performance Computing and Deep Learning
Vladimir Bozdog has defended his PhD thesis “A Smartphone-Based Infrastructure for Decentralized Partnership Formation” on 4 September 2019.
Lin Wang has joined our group on 1 December 2018 as assistant professor
In 2018 we obtained funding for three new NWO projects (DAS-6, EDL, EPI), and an EFRO project (with ACBA and TATA steel), see our projects page.
Our DAS-6 proposal has been accepted by NWO We have organized a DAS-6 vendor day on December 3, 2018, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
We have won the best paper award at the 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2017) for our paper “SenseLE: Exploiting Spatial Locality in Decentralized Sensing Environments”, authored by Nicolae Vladimir Bozdog, Marc X. Makkes, Alexandru Uta, Roshan Bharath Das, Aart Van Halteren and Henri Bal.
We are participating in a large new national STW-Perspective program called Efficient Deep Learning, see the EDL website and NWO news item.
Henri Bal become a member of the Editorial Board (Associate Editor) of IEEE’s Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
We have won the best paper award at the 5th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning 2016, Chicago, 27 May 2016) for the paper Scalable Overlapping Community Detection by Ismail El-Helw, Rutger Hofman, Wenzhe Li, Sungjin Ahn, Max Welling and Henri Bal.
Our paper about DAS has been published in IEEE Computer (May 2016). The paper was authored by the DAS steering committee.
