Kristian Rietveld is an assistant professor in the Systems and Security group at LIACS. His research interests are high performance computing (HPC), performance analysis and optimization, parallel and distributed computing, and optimizing compiler techniques. Fascinated by all kinds of techniques that improve the speed by which computers can perform computations, he brings to the C-SIDE project his expertise in HPC. He will co-supervise the PhD student working on the HPC case study.