Presenter

Alexander Heinecke studied Computer Science and Finance and Information Management at Technische Universität München(TUM), Germany. In 2010 and 2012, he completed internships at Intel in Germany and the USA. In 2013 he finished his Ph.D. studies at TUM and joined Intel's Parallel Computing Lab. His core research field is the use and co-design of multi- and many-core architectures in emerging scientific computing applications, such as high-order methods for solving partial differential equations or hierarchical discretizations/solvers of high-dimensional problems. Alexander was awarded the Intel Doctoral Student Honor Programme Award in 2012. In 2013 and 2014 he and his co-authors received the PRACE ISC Award for achieving petascale performance in the fields of molecular dynamics and seismic hazard modeling on more than 140,000 cores. In 2014, he and his co-authors were selected as Gordon Bell finalists for running multi-physics earthquake simulations at multi-petaflop performance on more than 1.5 millions of cores.