| Olaf Schenk | |
| Nationality: | German |
| Field: | High Performance Computing Applied mathematics Numerical analysis |
| Work Institution: | Università della Svizzera italiana ETH Zurich |
| Alma Mater: | ETH Zurich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Thesis Title: | Scalable Parallel LU Factorization Methods on Shared Memory Multiprocessors |
| Thesis Year: | 2000 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Wolfgang Fichtner Martin Hermann Gutknecht |
Olaf Schenk is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is full professor of the faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, and external lecturer of the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zurich. Schenk is a senior member of scholar associations as IEEE, and ACM. His research interests are inherent to the field of High-performance computing, in particular to the development and optimization of algorithms and software tools to perform large-scale simulations. One of his main contribution is the PARDISO project, a software tool for solving large-scale sparse matrices. He is the co-director of the Institute of Computing and of the Master of Science in Computational Science at USI.