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Aart J.C. Bik (a.k.a. Arjan Bik) was born on May 31, 1969, in Gouda, The Netherlands. He received his high school diploma (Gymnasium Beta) on June 2, 1987, in Gouda. On August 29, 1988, he finished his propaedeutical exam in computer science (cum laude) and he received the MSc degree in computer science (cum laude) from the Utrecht University on May 25, 1992. He received his PhD degree from the Leiden University on May 29, 1996. During his PhD research under supervision of prof. dr. H.A.G. Wijshoff, Aart designed and implemented the sparse compiler MT1. His PhD thesis received the C.J. Kok Award (outstanding thesis award).

In 1996 and 1997, Aart was a post-doctoral researcher at the Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, where he did research in high-performance compilers for the Java™ programming language under supervision of prof. dr. D.B. Gannon. This research resulted in the implementation of JAVAR (a prototype Java restructuring compiler) and JAVAB (a prototype bytecode parallelization tool).

In January 1998, Aart started at the Microcomputer Research Laboratories of Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, USA, working on Java JIT compilation. In 1999, he transferred to the Software and Solutions Group, where he was the lead compiler architect of automatic vectorization in the Intel® C++/Fortran compilers for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. In March 2002, Aart received the Intel Achievement Award (highest company award) for making the Streaming SIMD Extensions easy to use through automatic vectorization. In April 2005, he was promoted to Principal Engineer. Aart published on vectorization in "The Software Vectorization Handbook", selected chapters of "The Software Optimization Cookbook", as well as various articles listed in his publications.

In May 2007, Aart decided to take on new challenges and moved to Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, USA, where is he currently exploring completely new research areas.

Aart's personal interest include astronomy, Commodore 64, computer chess (sudoku), mindstorms, and solar power.