Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Wouter is a teamleader & software architect in the Simlab Neuroscience at the Forschungzentrum Jülich. His background is in Artificial Intelligence, information theory of neural networks, big data real-time streaming systems and development of complex HPC processing pipelines. He is responsible for science and use case management in the Human Brain Project, an EU Flagship Project and ICEI, the Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure for the Human Brain Project. He is currently creating the science and software infrastructure architecture for the HBP. He has also worked with the L2L and JuPex software frameworks and the Arbor neural simulator. His modelling work is focused on self-organizing dynamics of extremely large neural networks with a 2d spatial structure.
Task lead in the Human Brain Project (HBP) & EBRAINS. Responsible for science and use case management. Currently active in the creation of the science and software infrastructure architecture for the HBP.
"Design and implementation of HPC based deployment frameworks for Neuroscience simulations"
Simulation Laboratory Neuroscience - Jülich Supercomputing Centre Modular Scientific Computing. A HPC middle-ware for coordinating online multi-application science workflows on heterogeneous hardware. Application optimization and porting for many-core HPC architectures Arbor a neural simulator for large scale morphologically detailed neurons Network connectivity generation and visualization Software development best practices assessment and education https://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN/Expertise/SimLab/slns/teams/_node.html
Scientific programmer for the LOFAR.org radio-telescope. Lead engineer LOFAR Automated Processing System for batch scheduling and GRID computing High throughput Multi Node/GPU software correlator Lead engineer off-line image processing pipeline, design and implementation Application of AI methods and Recurrent Neural Networks on data processing in the radio astronomy Active in internal software development process improvements Publications: "Discovery of carbon radio recombination lines in absorption towards Cygnus A" Oonk et. al. http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/437/4/3506.short "The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS) I. Survey description and first results" Heald et. al. http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2015/10/aa25210-14/aa25210-14.html "Detecting cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope" Schellart et. al. http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2013/12/aa22683-13/aa22683-13.html "The brightness and spatial distributions of terrestrial radio sources" Offringa et. al. http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/08/20/mnras.stt1337.short
Software development (unit) testing Documentation
Teacher Neural networks 2009 TA: Neural networks 2008, 2010 Neurophysics: 2009 AI101: 2009
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