!!!Henri Bal \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='bal_henri_small.jpg' alt='Henri Bal' height='200' caption='Foto: Ernst van Deursen'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ __Present and Previous Positions__ * 2005-now, Full Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science * 1998, Full Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science (0.8) and Department of Physics and Astronomy (0.2) * 1994, Associate Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Computer Science * 1990, 04, Assistant Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Computer Science * 1989, 10, Visiting researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology + University of Arizona + Imperial College, London (on one combined grant) * 1982, Research assistant, VU University Amsterdam, Computer Science \\ __Fields of Scholarship__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __Honours and Awards__ * Winner of an NWO PIONIER award (1993-1997), this was a highly prestigious award of the Netherlands science foundation to set up a new research group (comparable to an ERC starting grant now) * Clifford Pickover’s “The Math Book,” lists the work on solving the game of Awari as one of the 250 greatest achievements in the entire history of mathematics. * Bal's group has won many awards in international competitions, in application domains like astronomy, multimedia, and semantic web: **First International Data Analysis Challenge for Finding Supernovae, at IEEE Cluster/Grid 2008, First Prize Winner both in the basic and fault tolerant category (2 awards) **First IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2008), at CCGrid 2008, for the entry "Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing". **Third IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2010), at CCGrid 2010, for the entry "WebPIE: a Web-scale Parallel Inference Engine" *Hentri Bal's PhD students won several awards: **The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award 2010 was won by Willem de Bruijn , PhD student of Herbert Bos and Henri Bal **The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award 2013 was won by Asia Slowinska, PhD student of Herbert Bos and Henri Bal \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Bal_Henri/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Bal_Henri/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Bal_Henri/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Bal_Henri/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit hbal}] [{ALLOW upload hbal}] [{ALLOW comment All}]