Team | Tiziano De Matteis

Joshua Kenyon, (since April 2026, co-supervised with Alexandru Iosup)
Xiaowey Ouyang (since October 2024, co-supervised with Francesc Verdugo) working on automatic finite element code generation for modern computing systems.
Dante Niewenhuis (since August 2023, co-supervised with Alexandru Iosup), working on the sustainability of computing systems

Below the students’ project I directly supervised at VU Amsterdam (unless otherwise noted).

Gideon Pol, “Towards the Practicality of the Generative Quantum Eigensolver: Constraint-aware Synthesis for Near-term Quantum Computers”. Daily Advisor: Dr. Seenivasan Hariharan (Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences Department).
Niels Thiele. “Multi-Resource Computing in Data Centers: GPU Scheduling in OpenDC”. Daily Advisor: Dante Niewenhuis.
Zhiyan Yao. “Stochastic Computing Large Language Model with High Level Synthesis”.
Thimo Wuttge. “BenchFrame: A Framework for Benchmarking Power Monitoring Tools”. Daily Advisor: Matthijs Jansen.

Tristan Laan. “Developing a BLAS library for the AMD AI Engine”.
German Shavchenko. “Unveiling the Performance Landscape of Modern HPC: Containerization, Network Performance, and Energy Footprint of GPU Interconnects”. Join supervision with Daniele De Sensi (Universita’ la Sapienza, Rome, Italy).
David Freina. “End-to-end Power Model for the Compute Continuum”. Daily advisor: Matthijs Jansen.
Gilles Magalhães Ribeiro. “ProvX: A Multi-Granularity Provenance System for Graph Processing Workflows”. Joint supervision with Alexandru Iosup.

Darius Chirilia. “Exploring the Programmability of the Cerebras SDK”.
An Hoang. “Analysing The Impact of Temporal Shifting on Carbon Emissions of Datacenters”. Daily Advisor: Dante Niewenhuis.
Filip Hupka. “Evaluating the Impact of Carbon-Aware Workflow Schedulers”. Daily Advisor: Dante Niewenhuis.
Presiyan Penkov. “Evaluation of Network Service Mesh in the context of Large Scale Telecom systems”. Daily advisor (Internship): Sylvain Viollon, Swisscom.

Ingmar Biemond: “Comparative Analysis of Sparse Matrix Formats: Performance and Recommendations”.
Riccardo Razzino: “Benchmarking Mojo: a performance comparison”.
Red Kalab: “Benchmarking Mojo”. Second reader: Dr. Daniele Bonetta.
Connor Kooistra: “Assessment of SURF HPC Cloud: Viable Alternative to On-Premise Solutions?”.
Zohaib Zaheer. “RC Modeler: Modeling Thermal Behavior of Processors in Discrete Event-Based Data Center Simulators”. Daily Supervisor: Dante Niewenhuis.
Jakub S. Kasikci: “Workflow Scheduling in Simulation Environments: Performance and Energy Efficiency Insights”. Daily Supervisor: Dante Niewenhuis.
Darko Vujica: “Exploring Redis Persistence Modes: Introducing AOFUring, an io_uring AOF Extension”. Daily supervisors: Krijn Doekemeijer, Zebin Ren, dr. Animesh Trivedi.

Kaan Centoglu “A Comparative Graph Processing Analysis: Graph Processing Benchmark Framework (GPBF)”.
Niklas Roemer (ETH Zurich). “Designing a communication library for Versal devices using Stream-Based API”. Co-supervisor: Lukas Gianinazzi (ETH Zurich).
Sven Zanetti. “Designing a Communication Library for Xilinx Versal Devices Using the Window-Based API” Co-supervisors: Lukas Gianinazzi (ETH Zurich).