Stijn Heldens🔊

Photo of Stijn Heldens next to a miniature lighthouse Welcome to my personal webpage. I am a Dutch computer scientist, currently a Research Software Engineer (RSE) at the Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) and a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

My main research interests are in High-Performance Computing (HPC), with a particular emphasis on parallel algorithms, distributed systems, programming languages/compilers, and GPU programming.

I am passionate about accelerating scientific applications and making modern computing hardware accessible to everyone. By collaborating closely with domain experts across scientific fields, I develop state-of-the-art tools that bridge the gap between cutting-edge computer science knowledge and real-world applications — allowing scientists to concentrate on what they enjoy most: performing groundbreaking research.

Curriculum Vitae

2022 - present
Netherlands eScience Center. Research Software Engineer. Focus on accelerating scientific projects using HPC and GPUs.
2022 - present
University of Amsterdam Visiting researcher.
2018 - 2022
Netherlands eScience Center / University of Amsterdam PhD on the topic of programming models towards exascale computing.
2016 - 2017
University of Twente. Researcher at Stochastic Operations Research Group. Worked on processing of large-scale spatio-temporal graphs.
2015 - 2016
Delft University of Technology. Researcher at Distributed Systems group. Worked on graph processing using heterogeneous CPU-GPU systems.
2012 - 2015
VU University Amsterdam. Master Computer Science, specialization tracks High Performance Distributed Computing and Internet Programming.
2009 - 2012
University of Amsterdam Bachelor Computer Science.

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