Bio sketch:

Wolfgang E. Nagel received his PhD from RWTH Aachen in 1993. He is a Professor at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) since 1997 and holds the Chair for Computer Architecture. He has published more than 130 papers covering modern programming concepts and software tools to support the development of scalable and data intensive applications, analysis of innovative computer architectures, and the development of efficient parallel algorithms and methods. Prof. Nagel is the founding director of the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at TUD, chairman of the German Gauß Allianz, and a member of the international Big Data and Extreme-scale Computing (BDEC) project.