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Faculty of Computer Science

Dr. Alexander Brandt

Assistant Professor

Alex-2022

Connect with me

  • My research cluster: Systems
Faculty of Computer Science

Email: ABrandt@dal.ca
Mailing Address: 
Faculty of Computer Science
HÂþ»­ University
6050 University Avenue
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Canada
 
Research Topics:
  • Symbolic and Scientific Computation
  • Parallel and Heterogeneous Computing
  • Software Performance Engineering
  • High-Performance Computing
  • Software Engineering for Science and Mathematics
  • Applications in Gaming, Graphics, Simulation, and Visualization

Education:
PhD - University of Western Ontario (2022); MSc - University of Western Ontario (2018); BSc - Memorial University of Newfoundland (2017)  

Bio:
Alexander Brandt's research centers around improving the performance, quality, maintainability, usability, and capability of software. His research focuses on the engineering and optimization of scientific and data-intensive computing on workstations and small, local clusters. This work takes a hardware-centric viewpoint to understanding and developing high-performance software with current computing resources (rather than waiting for the next generation of faster processors). 

A particular focus of Alex's research is proving tools and techniques which enable scientists, mathematicians, and other end-users to more easily and effectively exploit their local hardware and achieve high-performance. This requires parallel algorithms, heterogeneous computing, software engineering, and UI/UX design. Applications of interest include simulation, gaming, graphics, physics and astronomy.  Â