Author

Ben van Werkhoven is assistant professor at Leiden University, where he conducts research in automatic software optimization for High Performance Computing. After obtaining his PhD at VU Amsterdam in 2014, he joined the Netherlands eScience center, where he was accelerating science using GPUs as part of many collaborative projects in various disciplines. Ben is the principal investigator of Kernel Tuner, a growing ecosystem of tools for testing and auto-tuning GPU applications. Ben is leading work packages in several large consortia, including NWO (NWA-ORC), EU Horizon 2020, and EuroHPC JU. Ben is also a co-founder of the Netherlands Research Software Engineers community (NL-RSE).