Henk Sips @ Parallel and Distributed Systems

Main research interests

• Parallel languages and programming environments
• Muliti-Core programming
• Peer-to-Peer computing
• Low power computing

Current PhD students

• Alexander van Amesfoort
• Pieter Burghouwt
• Nitin Chiluka
• Lucia d'Acunto
• Jianbin Fang
• Pjotr Kourzanov
• Jie Shen
• Boxun Zhang
• Niels Zeilemaker

Previous PhD students

• Rahmeez Rahman, Peer-to-Peer system design: A socio-economic approach, 2011 (with Johan Pouwelse)
• Michel Meulpolder, Managing supply and demand of bandwidth in peer-to-peer communities, 2011 (with Dick Epema)
• Ana Varbanescu, On the effective parallel programming of multicore processors, 2010
• Ozan Sonmez, Application-oriented scheduling in multicluster grids, 2010 (with Dick Epema)
• Jan-David Mol, Free-riding, resilient video streaming in peer-to-peer networks, 2010 (with Dick Epema)
• Alexandru Iosup, A framework for the study of grid inter-operation mechanisms, 2009 (with DIck Epema)
• Pawel Garbacki, Improving P2P applications by breaking the architecture symmetry, 2008 (with Dick Epema and Maarten van Steen)
• Tom Parker, Rewriting the sensor network abstraction stack, 2008 (with Koen Langendoen)
• Hashim Mohammed, The design and implementation of the KOALA grid resource managment system, 2007 (with Dick Epema)
• Ivaylo Haratcherev, Application-oriented link adaptation for IEEE 802.11, 2006 (with Inald Lagendijk and Koen Langendoen)
• Linda van Norden, Operations research based approaches for the (maximun) satisfyability problem, 2006 (with Hans van Maaren)
• Roman van de Krogt, Plan repair in single-agent and multi-agent systems, 2005 (with Cees Witteveen)
• Jeroen Valk, Coordination among autonomous planners, 2005 (with Cees Witteveen)
• Hasjim Gautama, A probabilistic approach tp symbolic performance modelling of parallel systems (with Arjan van Gemund)
• Hylke van Dijk, Democratic Processing, 2004 (with Inald Lagendijk)
• Anca Bucur, Performance Analysis of Processor Co-Allocation Policies in Multicluster Systems, 2004 (with Dick Epema)
• Ihor Kuz, An approach to a scalable wide-area web service, 2003, (with Maarten van Steen)
• Cristina Soviany, Embedding data and task parallelism in image processing applications, 2003 (with Lucas van Vliet and Pieter Jonker)
• Johan Pouwelse, Power management for portable devices, 2003 (with Koen Langendoen)
• Mathijs de Weerdt, Plan merging in multi-agent systems, 2003 (with John-Jules Meyer and Cees Witteveen)
• Leo Breebaart, Rule based compilation of data parallel programs, 2003
• Jan de Jongh, Share Scheduling in Distributed Systems, 2002 (with Dick Epema)
• Marcel van Lohuizen, Parallel Natural Language Parsing, 2001 (with Ruud Sommerhalder)
• Andre Radulescu, Compile time scheduling for Distributed-memory Machines, 2001 (with Arjan van Gemund)
• Will Denissen, Design of a HPF Compiler, 2000
• Leon Aronson, A Theory of Routing in Parallel Computers, 1999 (with Ruud Sommerhalder)
• Paul Dechering, Semantics for Compiling Data Parallelism, 1998
• Hai-Xiang Lin, A Methodology for the Parallel Direct Solution of Finite Element Systems, 1993 (with Len Dekker)
• Edwin Paalvast, Programming for Parallelism and Compiling for Efficiency, 1992 (with Len Dekker)
• Ron Berndsen, Qualitative Reasoning in Economic Models, 1992 (with Henny Daniels)

Projects Acquired

CV

• 1996-now: Professor in Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Chair Parallel and Distributed Systems
• 1994-1996: Professor in Computer Science (0.4 part-time), University of Amsterdam, Chair High Performance Computing
• 1986-1992: Head Department of Computer Systems Architecture (0.2 part-time), Institute for Applied Computer Science TNO (ITI-TNO)
• 1984-1994: Professor in Computer Science (0.2 part-time), Katholieke Universiteit Brabant
• 1985-1996: Associate Professor (0.6 part-time), Research group Signal & Systems, Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology
• 1980-1984: Consultant (0.5 part-time), Commissie Reken- en Informatie Verwerkende Apparatuur of the Dutch Ministry of Education and Science (CRIVA)
• 1976-1985 Assistant Professor, Research group Signal & Systems, Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology

Program Committee / Board member of

• Concurrency and Computation (Wiley)
• Scientific Computing (IOS press)
• Parallel Computing (Elsevier), until 2005
• CWI Tracts
• Program Chair of the 4-th International Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computers, December 1993, Delft
• Program Chair of the International Conference ParCo99, Delft, August 1999
• General Chair Europar2009
• General Co-Chair IEEE P2P10
• ACM/SAC 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2003, 2002
• BICC 2008, 2006
• ISPA 2006
• ParCo 2006, 2003
• HeteroPar 2008, 2007, 2006
• EuroPar 2004, 2003, 1999, 1998
• HiPC 2007, 2004
• HPCN 2000, 1999, 1998
• ICPP 2000, 1998, 1997
• HUG 2000
• ICS 1997, 1996, 1994, 1993, 2012
• EuroMicroPDPN 2009, 2008, 1998, 1997
• P2P 2007
• ARITH 1991, 1981

Professional Activities

• Head of the Department of Software and Computer Technology, Delft University of Technology
• Chairman of the Board of the ASCI Research School
• Member of the Board of the Council of Exact Sciences, NWO-EW (1998-2005)
• Member of IFIP TC10
• Member of the Science Commission of the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR)
• Member of the Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (KHMW, founded in 1752)
• Member of the Bataafsch Genootschap (founded in 1769)
• Member of the Scientific Board of TNO-TPD
• Co-Founder and Chair of the Board of the Research School 'Advanced School for Computing and Imaging' (ASCI)
• Vice-Chair of the “Stichting Informatica Onderzoek Nederland (SION)” (Part of NWO), from 1994-1997
• Member ACI (Advising Board on Information Technology of the Dutch Government, until December 1994)
• Member of the Science Advice Council of SION (until mid 1992)
• Member of the Board of the Software Engineering Centre, SERC (March 1991 until December 1992)
• Consultant for Rijkswaterstaat, RIVM, Ministry of Economic Affairs, ESA, Delft Hydraulics