Henri Bal#
Foto: Ernst van Deursen
| Membership Number: | 3504 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://http://www.cs.vu.nl/~bal |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005-now, Full Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science
- 1998, Full Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science (0.8) and Department of Physics and Astronomy (0.2)
- 1994, Associate Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Computer Science
- 1990, 04, Assistant Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Computer Science
- 1989, 10, Visiting researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology + University of Arizona + Imperial College, London (on one combined grant)
- 1982, Research assistant, VU University Amsterdam, Computer Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Parallel and distributed systems
- Programming environments for clusters, grids, clouds, heterogeneous and mobile systems
- High-performance distributed applications in areas like search algorithms , multimedia, eScience, semantic web and model checking
Honours and Awards
- Winner of an NWO PIONIER award (1993-1997), this was a highly prestigious award of the Netherlands science foundation to set up a new research group (comparable to an ERC starting grant now)
- Clifford Pickover’s “The Math Book,” lists the work on solving the game of Awari as one of the 250 greatest achievements in the entire history of mathematics.
- Bal's group has won many awards in international competitions, in application domains like astronomy, multimedia, and semantic web:
- First International Data Analysis Challenge for Finding Supernovae, at IEEE Cluster/Grid 2008, First Prize Winner both in the basic and fault tolerant category (2 awards)
- First IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2008), at CCGrid 2008, for the entry "Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing".
- Third IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2010), at CCGrid 2010, for the entry "WebPIE: a Web-scale Parallel Inference Engine"
- Hentri Bal's PhD students won several awards:
- The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award 2010 was won by Willem de Bruijn , PhD student of Herbert Bos and Henri Bal
- The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award 2013 was won by Asia Slowinska, PhD student of Herbert Bos and Henri Bal
