Presenter

Torsten is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Before joining ETH, he led the performance modelling and simulation efforts of parallel petascale applications for the NSF-funded Blue Waters project at NCSA/UIUC. He is also a key member of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum where he chairs the "Collective Operations and Topologies" working group. Torsten won best paper awards at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference 2010 (SC10), EuroMPI 2013, SC13, SC14, IPDPS'15, ACM HPDC'15 and HPDC'16, ACM OOPSLA'16. For his work, Torsten received ETH Zurich's Latsis Prize in 2015, the SIAM SIAG/Supercomputing Junior Scientist Prize in 2012 and the IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing Award in 2013. Following his Ph.D., the received the Young Alumni Award 2014 from Indiana University. His research interests include "Performance-centric Software Development", scalable networks, parallel programming techniques, and performance modelling. Additional information can be found on his homepage at htor.inf.ethz.ch.