Håkan Grahn, Ph.D. (Hakan.Grahn@bth.se) Professor of Computer Engineering and Research Dean of the Faculty School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology Sweden

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Research

Publications
CCS-Lab -- Communication and Computer Systems Research Lab (previously PAARTS -- Parallel Architectures and Applications for Real-Time Systems)
Selected project(s): BESQ+, BESQ Research Center, EASE - Embedded Applications Software Engineering, EOT - Effektiv omplanering av tåglägen vid driftstörningar, QoEMoS
Completed project(s): Software research platform, BESQ Project - Blekinge Engineering Software Qualities, ARIES - Applied Research in Industrial and Embedded Software, Qoemovi,
Tool(s): Virtutech Simics, GEMS, SimFlex

Current activities:

Swedish Multicore Initiative
Fourth Swedish workshop on Multi-Core Computing, MCC-11 (MCC-08, MCC-09, and MCC-10)
Multicore Day 2011 (at SICS) (2008, 2009, and 2010)
MULTIPROG-2012 - Fifth Workshop on Programmability Issues for Heterogeneous Multicores

Main interests

Computer Architecture, Shared Memory Multiprocessors and Multicore Systems, Parallel programming, Performance Evaluation and Prediction, Simulation Techniques, Operating Systems, and Computer graphics (ray tracing)

Ph.D. Students

• Hussein Aziz, M.Sc., Ph.D. student (co-advised with Prof. Lars Lundberg and Dr. Markus Fiedler).
  Project: Qoemovi and QoEMoS
  Licentiate thesis: ``Enhancing the Smoothness of Streaming Video for Mobile Users over Unreliable Networks,'' Nov. 2010.
• Jan Kasper Martinsen, M.Sc., Ph.D. student (main advisor, co-advised with Prof. Lars Lundberg).
  Project: EASE - Embedded Applications Software Engineering (Theme B)
  Licentiate thesis: ``Evaluating JavaScript Execution Behavior and Improving the Performance of Web Applications with Thread-Level Speculation,'' Dec. 2011.
• Syed Muhammad Zeeshan Iqbal, M.Sc., Ph.D. student (main advisor, co-advised with Dr. Johanna Törnquist Krasemann).
  Project: Efficient re-scheduling of trains during disturbances
  Started in August 2010.

• Magnus Broberg, May 2002 (co-advised with Prof. Lars Lundberg).
  Ph.D. Thesis: Performance Prediction and Improvement Techniques for Parallel Programs in Multiprocessors.
  Tool: VPPB (Visualization of Parallel Program Behaviour)
  First employment: Assistant professor at Blekinge Institute of Technology.
• Frans Mårtensson, February 2006 (co-advised with Dr. Michael Mattsson).
  Licentiate thesis: Software Architecture Quality Evaluation - Approaches in an Industrial Context.
  Project: BESQ - Blekinge Engineering Software Qualities
  First employment: Ericsson AB, Karlskrona.
• Piotr Tomaszewski, September 2006 (co-advised with Prof. Lars Lundberg).
  Ph.D. Thesis: Software Development Productivity - Evaluation and Improvement for Large Industrial Projects.
  Project: BESQ - Blekinge Engineering Software Qualities
  First employment: Ericsson AB, Karlskrona.
• Simon Kågström, May 2008 (co-advised with Prof. Lars Lundberg).
  Ph.D. Thesis: Tools, Techniques, and Trade-offs when Porting Large Software Systems to New Environments. (thesis page)
  Software: The application kernel (an SMP porting approach), LOPI (binary instrumentation), and Cibyl (a binary translator (MIPS to Java bytecode))
  Project: BESQ - Blekinge Engineering Software Qualities
  First employment: Ericsson AB, Stockhom.

Teaching

• Performance Optimization, DV1307
• Multiprocessor systems, DV2415
• Supervising Master theses in Software Engineering and Computer Science

How to reach me

Internet links

Research financing: Vinnova | The Foundation for Strategic Research | The Swedish Research Council | ¨The Knowledge Foundation | SITI
Open posistions at: BTH | Lund University | LTH | KTH | Linköping | Luleå | Uppsala
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