Presenter

Thomas Fahringer is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck. He is leading a research group in the area of distributed and parallel processing which develops the
ASKALON system to support researchers worldwide in various fields of science and engineering to develop, analyse, optimize and run parallel and distributed scientific applications. Furthermore, he leads a research team that created the Insieme parallelizing and optimizing compiler for heterogeneous multicore parallel computers. He is currently coordinating EU-H2020 Fethpc project ALLSCALE: An Exascale Programming, Multi-objective Optimisation and Resilience Management Environment Based on Nested Recursive Parallelism.
Fahringer was involved in numerous national and international research projects including 15 EU funded projects. Fahringer has published 5 books, 40 journal and magazine articles and more than 200 reviewed conference papers including 4 best/distinguished IEEE/ACM papers.