About us

The HiCrest research group combines expertise in parallel algorithms and high performance computing with reliable computing systems by combining an hardware-software co-design approach. The synergy between our researchers, coming from multidisciplinary fields, is the key in the quest for producing the most performant, efficient, and reliable algorithms. Our research is focused on High Performance Computing and Safety-Critical applications, ranging from self-driving cars to space exploration and scientific computing. Our interest ranges from traditional CMOS systems to more advanced and cutting-edge technologies, including Quantum Computing, Neuromorphic devices, and Processing In Memory.

From a software perspective, our team members research on various topics, ranging from programming models for emerging computer system architectures to scalable and efficient algorithms and data structures, with an emphasis on irregular applications such as sparse algebra and graph analytics.
The group, whilst being very active and successful in various research communities, maintains a deep interest in experimental evaluations in the industrial field, with a strong focus on impact and technology transfer.