Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Staff Software Engineer at Google Inc.
- Past
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- Principal Engineer at Intel Corp.
- Postdoctoral Researcher at Indiana University
- Education
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- Universiteit Leiden
- Universiteit Utrecht
- Christelijk Lyceum, Gouda
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Aart Bik’s Summary
Aart J.C. Bik (a.k.a. Arjan Bik) is an experienced software engineer and compiler architect with a thorough knowledge of the programming languages Java, C, C++, Fortran, and assembly language for the Intel Architecture. He has worked on a wide variety of architectures and processors, using various compiler tools, development and performance evaluation environments, and operating systems.
Aart Bik’s Specialties:
Compilers, data dependence analysis, high performance computing, parallelization, programming languages, vectorization.
Aart Bik’s Experience
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Staff Software Engineer
Google Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Aart took on new challenges and moved to Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, USA, where he is now a Staff Software Engineer in the infrastructure team. In his "spare time" he developed chess, checkers, and reversi for the G1 Android phone.
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Principal Engineer
Intel Corp.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
January 1998 — May 2007 (9 years 5 months)
Aart was the lead compiler architect of automatic vectorization in the Intel® C++/Fortran compilers for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. In March 2002, Aart received the Intel Achievement Award (highest company award) for making the Streaming SIMD Extensions easy to use through automatic vectorization. In April 2005, he was promoted to Principal Engineer. Aart published on vectorization in "The Software Vectorization Handbook" and selected chapters of "The Software Optimization Cookbook".
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Indiana University
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
October 1996 — September 1997 (1 year)
Aart did research in high-performance compilers for the Java™ programming language under supervision of prof. dr. D.B. Gannon. This research resulted in the implementation of JAVAR (a prototype Java restructuring compiler) and JAVAB (a prototype bytecode parallelization tool).
Aart Bik’s Education
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Universiteit Leiden
PhD , Computer Science , 1992 — 1996
During his PhD research under supervision of prof. dr. H.A.G. Wijshoff, Aart designed and implemented the sparse compiler MT1, which is a special kind of source-to-source restructuring compiler that can automatically transform a dense program into a semantically equivalent sparse program.
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Universiteit Utrecht
MSc , Computer Science , 1987 — 1992
Propaedeutical exam in computer science on August 29, 1988 (cum laude) and MSc degree in computer science May 25, 1992 (cum laude).
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Christelijk Lyceum, Gouda
1981 — 1987
Gymnasium Beta (June 2, 1987).
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Aart Bik’s Interests:
Astronomy, computer chess, GPS, piano, reading, robotics, solar power.
Aart Bik’s Honors:
C.J. Kok Award (outstanding PhD thesis award), 1996.
Intel Achievement Award, March 2002, for making the Streaming SIMD Extensions easy to use through automatic vectorization.
