Jens Gustedt
Local Referent For PIQ at Inria
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolJens Gustedt is a senior researcher and deputy director at ICube Strasbourg with nearly two decades of experience in parallel and distributed computing, algorithms, and coarse-grained parallelism. He bridges deep academic research (habil. and PhD in Mathematics) with practical systems work, notably contributing low-level multithreading enhancements to the musl C library. As an ISO C committee expert and author of Modern C, he shapes both the language's standardization (TS 6010, C23) and its real-world use in system software. At Inria he now serves as local referent for the PIQ program, fostering high-risk scientific projects into application domains. His background as long-time journal editor and seasoned academic leader signals strong editorial rigor and community stewardship beyond coding and research. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate theoretical models of parallelism into concrete locking algorithms and stable C implementations used in production-grade libraries.
19 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
habilitation, Mathematics, habilitation, Mathematics at Technische Universität BerlinDiplom, Mathematics, Diplom, Mathematics at The University of Bonn
German, English, French
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Github contributions (5)
bminor/musl
Sep 2014 - Jan 2018
Unofficial mirror of etalabs musl repository. Updated daily.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jens primarily focused on modifying and extending the musl C library, specifically related to thread functionalities. Their work involved implementing C11 thread functions like `tss_create`, `mtx_trylock`, and `cnd_timedwait`, ensuring compatibility with POSIX equivalents. They also refactored existing code, introducing a new lock algorithm and consistently applying the `LOCK` and `UNLOCK` macros, enhancing thread safety and improving the overall stability of the library. These changes indicate a deep understanding of multithreading and low-level system programming.
updatedmusl
jweyrich/p99
Mar 2007 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1808 commits in 14 years 3 months
inriatransparentc99allocationresource-management
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