Summary
Emmanuel Kieffer is an HPC software engineer with eight years of experience blending research-grade rigor and production engineering across academia and industry. He holds a PhD with highest distinction in computer science and has applied his expertise to FPGA acceleration, distributed AI training, quantum software deployment, and combinatorial and bi-level optimization. Emmanuel has moved large-scale HPC solutions from prototype to production—profiling and optimizing code, guiding LLM fine-tuning, and deploying quantum simulation stacks—while also producing tutorials and open-source tools to lower the barrier for users. Based in Grand Est, France, he has contributed to Europe-wide funded projects and thrives on collaborative, cross-disciplinary challenges that translate cutting-edge computing into practical impact. An avid mentor and educator, he couples deep theoretical insight with hands-on systems work, often bringing “learning to optimize” ideas into applied toolchains.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Luxembourg
Master 2ème année, Informatique spécialité Optimisation et Algorithmique (OPAL), Master 2ème année, Informatique spécialité Optimisation et Algorithmique (OPAL) at UFR MIM Université de Lorraine
DUT, Statistique et Informatique Décisionnelle, DUT, Statistique et Informatique Décisionnelle at IUT METZ
German, English, French