People

George joined SPO in October 2018 after graduating from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.  He is working on the Devito project, on performance optimisations for non-mesh-aligned sources and receivers, in particular by enhancing locality by tiling across multiple timesteps.

Eduardo joined SPO as a PhD student in January 2019, after completing Imperial’s MSc in Statistics.  He is working on uncertainty in deep neural networks, applied to computer vision applications.

Leads the Firedrake Project, an automated system for the solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM). Firedrake uses sophisticated code generation to provide mathematicians, scientists, and engineers with a very high productivity way to create sophisticated high performance simulations.  Firedrake is the focus for a long-standing collaboration with the SPO group on compiler technology to automate domain-specific performance optimisations.

Leads the Software Performance Optimisation research group.

Marius Koch has been a PhD student at Imperial since 2017, working on in-situ analysis in computational fluid dynamics – aiming to identify and classify vortices as the simulation runs at scale.  He is affiliated with SPO; his first supervisor is Dr Peter Vincent in Aeronautical Engineering.

Navjot is a PhD student (since 2017) working on the Devito project, leading work on managing memory, checkpoints, recomputation and compression in full waveform inversion.  He has also led work on applying Devito in deep learning.  He is affiliated with the SPO group; his first supervisor is Dr Gerard Gorman in Earth Science Engineering.

Nicolas is a PhD student working with Prof Nobuko Yoshida on session types for the Rust programming language.  He is affiliated with SPO.

Contributed several major optimisation technologies for the Firedrake Project during his PhD.  Currently a senior Research Associate Earth Science Engineering, working as the lead developer on the Devito Project, a Domain-specific Language (DSL) and code generation framework for the design of highly optimised finite difference kernels for use in inversion methods.  Devito is the focus for continuing exciting research collaboration with the SPO group.

The lead developer on the Firedrake Project, a deep and long-standing collaboration with the SPO group.

Riku Murai joined SPO as a PhD student in October 2019, after graduating from Imperial’s MEng programme in Computer Science.  He is working on domain-specific optimisations in the context of robot vision.