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 who leads research on compiler technology and parallel computing, with a career spanning more than two decades in academia and research. He holds a PhD from Universität des Saarlandes and a Habilitation, and has published two books and over 130 peer-reviewed papers on topics ranging from task/instruction scheduling to performance-aware software composition for heterogeneous systems. His notable technical contributions include the OPTIMIST code generator, the PARAMAT automatic parallelization approach, the PEPPHER component model, and the SkePU single-source multi-backend C++ framework for portable autotuned execution. Kessler combines deep theory and practical tooling, having produced open-source systems and programming languages (Fork, NestStep) as well as contributions to community projects like McCLIM. He teaches across undergraduate to PhD courses in parallel and distributed computing, compilers and software composition, and mentors students in applying performance-aware design to multicore and GPU platforms. Based in Linköping, Sweden, he blends rigorous algorithmic work with hands-on implementation experience in heterogeneous and high-performance computing.
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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