Dr. Alexander Brandt
Assistant Professor
Connect with me
- My research cluster: Systems
- My website
Email: ABrandt@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
Dalhousie University
6050 University Avenue
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Canada
- 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.