Christoph Kessler
Professor at Linköping University
Greater Linköping Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolChristoph Kessler is a professor of Computer Science at Linköping University, leading the Programming Environment Laboratory’s research group focused on compiler technology and parallel computing. He earned his PhD from Universität des Saarlandes in 1994, completed his habilitation in 2001, and joined Linköping in 2001, becoming a full professor in 2007. His research spans parallel programming, code generation, program optimization, system modeling and software composition, with over 130 peer-reviewed papers, two books, and numerous open-source projects. Notable contributions include OPTIMIST, PARAMAT, PEPPHER, SkePU, and Fork/NestStep, reflecting a strong impact on portable autotuning and heterogeneous multicore systems. He also contributes to open source as a full-stack developer on McCLIM, fixing undo/redo functionality, refactoring, and improving test coverage. Based in the Greater Linköping area, he teaches across undergraduate to PhD levels in parallel and distributed computing, operating systems, compiler construction, and software composition, blending rigorous theory with hands-on implementation.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (5)
debugging10
debug10
listener10
common-lisp10
inspector10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
McCLIM/McCLIM
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
An implementation of the Common Lisp Interface Manager, version II
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 17 PRs, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:Christoph primarily contributed to the Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) project by fixing bugs and implementing features within the example applications. They addressed undo/redo functionality in the clim-fig example, ensuring correct behavior of operations like drawing and clearing. The user also refactored code, renaming variables and improving code structure using best practices and libraries. Additionally, the user fixed various minor issues and improved test coverage within the Drei library.
listenerinspectorlisp-interpretermcclimlisp
kc-/slime
Jul 2015 - Jun 2019
The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
elispinteractionemacslisp-interpreteremacs-lsp
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