Resume of Aart Bik

Personal Information

Full Name	Aart J.C. Bik (a.k.a. Arjan Bik)
Nationality	Dutch (US greencard holder)
Work	Google Inc.
	1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Building #42-236
	Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
Phone	650 214 4478
Email
URL	http://www.aartbik.com/
Network	http://www.linkedin.com/in/aartbik

Education and Work History

1969-1987		Aart was born on May 31, 1969 in Gouda, The Netherlands. He received his high school diploma (Gymnasium Beta) on June 2, 1987 in Gouda.
1987-1992	MSc	On August 29, 1988, Aart passed the propaedeutical exam in computer science (cum laude) and he received his MSc degree in computer science (cum laude) from the Utrecht University, The Netherlands, on May 25, 1992.
1992-1996	PhD	Aart received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Leiden University, The Netherlands, on May 29, 1996. His PhD thesis "Compiler Support for Sparse Matrix Computations" received the C.J. Kok Award (outstanding thesis award).
1996-1997	postdoc	Aart was a post-doctoral researcher at the Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, researching high performance compilers for the Java programming language.
1998-2007	Intel	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. In March 2002, Aart received the Intel Achievement Award (highest company award) for making SSE easy to use through automatic vectorization. In April 2005, he was promoted to Principal Engineer.
2007-now	Google	In May 2007, Aart decided to take on new challenges at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, USA.

Awards and Achievements

1997	Aart’s PhD thesis received the C.J. Kok Award (outstanding thesis award) from the Leiden University.
2002	Aart received the Intel Achievement Award (highest company award) for making SSE easy to use through automatic vectorization.
2004	Aart authored the book "The Software Vectorization Handbook".
2005	Aart was promoted to Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation.
2006	Aart co-authored the second edition of "The Software Optimization Cookbook".

Experience

At the Utrecht University, Aart was a Teaching Assistant for a variety of courses (Parallel Programming, Fundamental Algorithms, Distributed Databases, and Computer Architecture). During 1989 and 1990, he was member of a committee that took care of purchasing scientific books for students. At the Leiden University, Aart was a Teaching Assistant for several other courses (Operating Systems, Digital Techniques and, Compiler Construction).
During his PhD research under supervision of Professor H.A.G. Wijshoff, Aart designed and fully implemented a special FORTRAN restructuring compiler, referred to as a sparse compiler. This source-to-source restructuring compiler automatically transforms a dense program (in which all operations on matrices are simply implemented using two-dimensional arrays) into a semantically equivalent sparse program (operating on more complicated sparse data structures), thereby reducing storage requirements and computational time of the original application. His PhD thesis "Compiler Support for Sparse Matrix Computations" received the C.J. Kok Award (outstanding thesis award) from the Leiden University.
In 1996 and 1997, Aart was a post-doctoral researcher at the Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, where he conducted research in high-performance compilers for the Java programming language under supervision of Professor D.B. Gannon. This research resulted in the implementation of JAVAR (a prototype Java restructuring compiler) and JAVAB (a prototype bytecode parallelization tool). The source code of both tools, freely made available for download, has been incorporated in several other research projects.
In January 1998, Aart started at the Microcomputer Research Laboratories of Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, USA, working on Java JIT compilation. This work was presented in 1999 at two tutorials during the ACM Java Grande Conference and the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing. 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. He has implemented a wide range of compiler analysis and optimization techniques, ranging from traditional data dependence analysis and loop-oriented vectorization to more multimedia-oriented alignment optimizations and vectorization of straight-line code. During this period, Aart received four divisional recognition awards and eight Intel compiler team awards. In March 2002, Aart received the Intel Achievement Award (highest company award) for making SSE 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 (see links below).
In May 2007, Aart decided to take on new challenges at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, USA.

Skills

Aart is an experienced compiler engineer with a thorough knowledge of the programming languages Java, C, C++, Fortran, including the parallel programming model OpenMP, and assembly language for the Intel Architecture, including all multimedia extensions (the MMX technology and Streaming SIMD Extensions). He is familiar with many other programming languages, such as Ada, Basic, Occam, Pascal, Lisp, and Prolog. Aart has worked on a wide variety of architectures and processors (e.g. MOS Technology 6510, HP 9000/720, Cray C98/4256, IBM RS/6000 G30, IA-32, Intel 64, IPF, Xscale), using various compiler tools (e.g. Lex and Yacc), development and performance evaluation environments (e.g. CVS, Eclipse, GDB, Perforce, Visual C++ and VTune), and operating systems (Unix, Linux, Mac OS, and Windows).

Publications

Aart has published extensively at international conferences and in scientific journals (over 40 publications total). He also was member of several program committees. A complete list can be found at http://www.aartbik.com/pub.html. Aart filed a few patent applications.
Aart authored a book on multimedia vectorization: "The Software Vectorization Handbook. Applying Multimedia Extensions for Maximum Performance". ISBN 0-9743649-2-4, Intel Press, June, 2004. See http://www.intel.com/intelpress/sum_vmmx.htm.
Aart co-authored a book on optimization: "The Software Optimization Cookbook (second edition). High-Performance Recipes for the Intel® Architecture". ISBN 0-9764832-1-1, Intel Press, March, 2006. See http://www.intel.com/intelpress/sum_swcb2.htm.

Professional Societies

Member of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Personal Interests

Astronomy, computer chess, GPS, piano, reading, robotics, solar power.