Henri Bal

Henri Elle Bal (born 16 April 1958)[1] is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.[2] Shortly after graduating, he moved to the Vrije Universiteit where he began doing research on optimizing compilers in the Computer Systems group under the direction of Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum.His PhD thesis, under Tanenbaum's supervision, was sufficiently influential that it was later published by Prentice-Hall as a book entitled Programming Distributed Systems.A paper[4] about this research, entitled "Solving the Game of Awari using Parallel Retrograde Analysis" was published in IEEE Computer, Oct. 2003 and received worldwide publicity.[5][6][7] Bal has had about a dozen PhD students and has written nearly 100 scientific papers in leading computer science conferences and journals.
Computer scienceVrije UniversiteitDoctoral advisorAndrew S. TanenbaumWerner VogelsprofessorAmsterdamNetherlandsengineer's degreeDelft University of Technologymathematicscum laudecompilersAndrew TanenbaumPhD studentprogramming languagepostdoctoral fellowCambridge, MassachusettsUniversity of ArizonaTucson, ArizonaImperial CollegeLondonassistant professorassociate professorfull professorAcademia EuropaeaThe RegisterMathematics Genealogy Project