Presenter

Maciej Besta leads research on large language models and graph computations at the Scalable Parallel Computing Lab at ETH Zurich; he also works on network topologies and occasionally other aspects of the high-performance computing landscape. Maciej published more than 50 top conference and journal papers. He won, among others, the competition for the Best Student of Poland (2012), the first Google Fellowship in Parallel Computing (2013), the ACM/IEEE-CS High-Performance Computing Fellowship (2015), the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing Early Career (2023), the IEEE TCHPC Award for Excellence in High-Performance Computing Early Career (2024), and the OlympusMons Award for contributions to scalable storage systems (2024). His doctoral dissertation on irregular computations received the ETH Medal for outstanding doctoral thesis (2021), and awards from IEEE (2021), SPEC (2022), and ACM (2022) for a distinguished dissertation worldwide in - respectively - scalable computing, performance analysis, and high-performance computing. He received Best Paper awards and nominations at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2013, 2014, 2019 (2 papers), 2022, and 2023 (2 papers); at ACM HPDC 2015 and 2016, ACM Research Highlights 2018, and others. More detailed information on https://people.inf.ethz.ch/bestam/ .