Author

Alessio Sclocco is a research software engineer at the Netherlands eScience Center, where he specializes in the development and optimization of GPU applications. He obtained his PhD in computer science from the VU University Amsterdam in 2017, with a thesis titled “Accelerating Radio Astronomy with Auto-tuning”. In 2015, he worked as a scientific programmer at ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, where he developed AMBER, a highly optimized and auto-tuned GPU pipeline for detecting fast radio bursts and other radio astronomical transients. In 2019, he was a visiting scholar at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, working on the automatic tracking of insects. Alessio is also very passionate about helping others to achieve high performance with their code and has been teaching GPU programming to students and researchers since 2012.