Scholar
Olaf Schenk
Google Scholar ID: Ljs4_cIAAAAJ
Professor, Institute of Computing, Universita della Svizzera italiana, SIAM Fellow
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,921
H-index
24
i10-index
49
Publications
20
Co-authors
121
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and an editorial board member of the SIAM Journal for Scientific Computing. He has been involved in over 60 technical program committees and has won several awards, including the SIAM Supercomputing Prize 2023.
Research Experience
- His research focuses on multicore and manycore algorithms for computational science simulations on emerging HPC architectures. Additionally, he is the Founder & Director at Panua Technologies Sagl, a company based in Lugano that creates customized high-end software solutions for large-scale prediction, simulation, optimization, and graph analytics.
Education
- He graduated in Applied Mathematics from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He earned his PhD in 2001 from the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich and a venia legendi from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Basel in 2009.
Background
- Olaf Schenk is a professor at the Institute of Computing at the Faculty of Informatics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. He serves as the director of the Institute of Computing and as the director for the Master in Computational Science. His research interests are centered around applied algorithms, computing, and software tools for high-performance scientific computing.
Miscellany
- In the private sector, he holds the role of Founder & Director at Panua Technologies Sagl, a company based in Lugano that creates customized high-end software solutions for large-scale prediction, simulation, optimization, and graph analytics.
