Bertil Schmidt

Education

• Loughborough University
  Ph.D., Computer Science

• Kiel University
  Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science and Mathematics

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany)

• 07/2011 - present: Tenured Full Professor (W3) and Chair for Parallel and Distributed Systems, Insitut für Informatik
• 04/2014 - 03/2016: Head of Department (Computer Science)

Nayang Technological University (NTU)

• 06/2008 - 06/2011: Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering
• 05/2001 - 12/2006: Assistant Professor, School of Computer Engineering
• 09/1999 - 04/2001: Research Fellow, School of Computer Engineering

University of Melbourne:

• 01/2008 - 06/2008: Senior Researcher, NICTA VRL

University of New South Wales:

• 01/2007 - 08/2007: Associate Professor, Computer Engineering and Information Technology (Asia Campus)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• 04/2014 - 03/2016: Head of Department (Computer Science)
• 08/2011 - present: University HPC Comittee Member
• 07/2010 - 06/2011: Course Lead in HPC Stream
• 11/2009 - 06/2011: Search Committee Member for Faculty Positions in High Performance Computing and Distributed Systems
• 01/2006 - 12/2006: Programme Director, M.Sc. in Bioinformatics
• 05/2003 - 05/2005: Deputy Director, BioMedical Engineering Research Center (BMERC)

INDUSTRIAL CONSULTATION

• Progeniq Pte Ltd (Singapore): BLAST on FPGAs, Speech Recognition on FPGAs, Ray Tracing on SGI RASC RC100, Development of biological sequence analysis applications on FPGAs
• Matrixview Ltd (Singapore): Evaluation of computational platforms for real-time medical imaging compression
• Helixense Pte Ltd (Singapore): Development of a software system for bioinformatics applications on PC clusters
• Siemens AG (Munich, Germany): Design of an embedded system for H.263 video compression
• ISATEC GmbH (Kiel, Germany): Parallelization of scientific computing applications on Systola1024 (image and signal processing, FFT, medical image reconstruction, cryptography, and multimedia video compression)

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Best Paper Award, 25th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2015), Toronto, Canada
• NVIDIA Academic Partnership Award
• CUDA Research Center (CRC) Award
• GPU Computing Champion for the "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology" community on gpucomputing.net
• Best Paper Award, 20th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2009), July, 7-9, 2009, Boston, MA
• Award for the best degree in Computer Science at University of Kiel in 1995
• Nominated for the Excellence in Teaching Award for contributions in teaching at Nanyang Technological University in 2005
• Best Paper Award "Systems Category", Fraunhofer Institute (IGD in Darmstadt) in 2007
• NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award