Ajeet Pathak ERCIM Post Doc (April 2022-23), PhD in AI with a strong interest in HPC

Bart Iver van Blokland (Jan 2023-2027) Scientific visualization and graphics

• PhD 2021 Advisor: Theoharis, Elster was Co-advisor 

Jacob Odgård Tørring, PhD student w/ Elster 2020-23, MTech w/ Elster 2020

• On exchange to Stanford Jan-March 2023, also former HPC-Lab admin
• Joined as a PhD student August 2020. Topic: Auto-tuning

Maren Wessel-Berg, PhD Student,  MTech 2022.

• Co-advisor: Børge Arntsen (Geo) Topic: GPU optimization of Seismic codes

Tor A. Haugdahl,  PhD student (RSO) joined Dec 2022, MTech 2022

• Topic: Autotuning of Geoscience codes 

Tobias Dyngeland PhD student (SFI-CGF WP5) joined Jan. 2023, MTech 2022

• Topic: Parallelization of Optimization Codes for CO2 storage 

Claudi Lleyda Moltó PhD student (SFI-CGF WP5) joined Feb. 2023, MSc from Spain

• Topic: Parallelization of Optimization Codes for CO2 storage 

Current & Recent Master Students

Roger Holten - starting up fall 2023. Vullkan rendering for HPC-Lab Snow simulator - co-supervized by Bart van Blokland

Jon Berquist MTech 2023, graduated July 2023. Worked on SFI-CGF WP5 with ASN on optimizing SVD for DAS

Mikael Nielsen MTech 2023, graduated June 2023. Worked on Vulkan ray tracing for the HPC-Lab Snow simulator

Steffen A. Haug MTech 2023, graduated July 2023. Optimized SPH targeting the HPC-Lab Snow simulator. Julia.  

Ruben S. Valen MTech 2023, graduated June 2023. 3D Halos for GPU

HPC-Lab Guests & Recent HPC-Labbers

See also Link to list of past members

Jenny I. Manne
MTech 2022,
Advisor: Dr. Jan C. Meyer

Jakob Rødsgaard Jørgensen
Guest researcher/PhD student in AI from Univ of Århus, spring/Summer 2021

Rune Erlend Jensen
MTech & prev PhD candidate
runeerle@idi.ntnu.no
Received NR-prisen for his masters thesis

Bjørn Atle J. Angelsen
Professor, Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging
SURF Project Director

Gavin Taylor
Visiting/Assoc.Prof. @USNA
Sabbatical at HPC-Lab 2017-18

Johannes Kvam
PhD (May 6, 2019), Advisor: Angelsen; Elster was Co-advisor
Application of Machine Learning in Tissue Characterization

Weifeng Liu
H2020 MSCA Post Doc 2017-18 Now a faculty member in China

Malik M. Khan
ERCIM Post Doc/EU Project Post Doc (2013-2018)
Dr. Khan is now working as a faculty member in Pakistan.

Mohammad Qasim
Research Scientist (2016-17) on EU H2020 project CloudLightning.
Now working in Ålesund, Norway.

Thomas Løfsgaard Falch
PhD March 2018
Now with MathWorks, Cambridge, UK

Ola Finneng Myhre
Post Doc (PhD 2017), DMF
Advisor: Angelsen
Now Associate Ultrasound Director at EXACT Therapeutics

Ole Martin Brende
PhD 2016, DMF
Advisor: Angelsen
Now at Ramboll, Trondheim

Samira Pakdel
Prev. PhD Candidate

Zawadi Berg Svela
Prev. Integrated MTech-PhD student
Topic: Graph Algorithms for GPU based HPC.
Now at Remarkable

Mohammadmehdi Bozorgi
Prev. PhD Candidate,
Advisor: Lindseth
Elster is Co-advisor
On leave

Lane Holloway
PhD 2016 from UT Austin
Dr. Elster was Co-advisor

Erik Smistad
PhD 2015
Advisor: Prof. Frank Lindseth
Dr. Elster was Co-advisor

Klaudia L. Swiecka
M.Tech (2018)
Advisor: Hetland/Taylor
Elster was unofficial co-advisor  Topic: Adverserary AI algorithms

Aleksander Wasasznik
M. Tech IMF (2018)
Advisors: Ruocco/Telenor AI Elster was unofficial co-advisor. Fall proj. with Elster as main adv.

Raymond Toft
M. Tech IMF (2018)
Honorary HPC-Laber.

Inge Edward Halsaunet
M. Sci. (??) Fall project completed in 2018. Now working in industry.

Roger Holten
MTech 2021
Topic: GPU-based snow simulation

Recent Master Students:

Maren Wessel-Berg
MTech 2022.
Co-advisor: Børge Arntsen (Geo) Topic: GPU optimization of Seismic codes

Mathias Chunno
MTech 2022
Topic: Snow simulation

Tobias Dyngeland
MTech 2022
Topic: Parallelization of Optimization Codes for CO2 storage gepphu

Vetle O.P. Finstad
MTech 2022
Topic: Parallel Computing Edutainment

Tor A. Haugdahl
MTech 2022
Topic: Autotuning of Geoscience codes (co-advisor: Jacob Tørring)

Aksel Hjerpbakk
MTech 2022 Topic: GPU & Viz

Jacob B. Simonsen
MTech TBD
Topic: Quatum computing (co-advisor @ SINTEF)

Lars Sørlie
MTech 2022
Topic: Parallelization of CERN phyiscs codes

Iver Håkonsen
MTech Dec 2022.
To join Spring 2022

 

 Lars Bjertnes
MTech 2021
Topic: GPU program datasets for AI optimizations

Martin Rebne Farstad
MTech 2021
Fall proj w/ Elster, then M. Jahre
Topic: Benchmarking and optimizing PDE kernels for multi-core and many-core systems

Andreas Hammer
MTech 2021
Benchmarking and optimizing 2D & 3D kernels on multicores

Ingvild Høgstøyl
MTech 2021
Benchmarking AI frameworks in collaborations with CERN

Øystein Krogstie
MTech Sept 2021
Topic: Optimizing simulation codes for NFR FriPro project
4D CT /Computational Microscopy

Konstantin Holm Mathisen
MTech 2021(rejoined sp 2021)
Master topic:  Photon Mapping in Vulkan.
Proj: Segmentation of fish with sonar data

Ivar A. Helgestad Sandvik
MTech 2021. Topic: Snow simulations on GPU
Also worked as exchange rep for COMP w/ Elster

Odin Ugedal
MTech 2021, Fall proj. with Elster
Topic: Virtualization

Trygve Urdahl
MTech 2021 in Physics. Elster was Co-advisor on fall proj. He was also the TDT4200 Parallel Computing T.A. for fall 2019.

 

Vegard Seim Karstang
MTech March 2020 Topic: Graph Algorithms on GPUs

Håvard Bjerke
MSc (Informatics) Summer 2020 Topic: Snow simulations on GPUs

Ole Alexander Hole
Fall 2019 project only with Elster.
Worked on OPM code with Equinor.

Knut Kirkhorn
MTech Oct 2020 Topic: HPC performance & benchmarking of DGX2 & IBM Power 9 AC922 (with Ingunn Sund)

Joakim Lier
MTech Summer 2020. Fall 2019 project with Elster. Elster was co-supervisor for Master project on sound notation.

Ingunn Sund
MTech Oct 2020 Topic: HPC performance & benchmarking of DGX2 & IBM Power 9 AC922 (with Kirkhorn)

Anders Treland
MTech 2020 BSc in Physics. Topic related to NFR proj Elster has with Breiby on 4D CT. Was offered a PhD position, but currently in industry