Anja Gerbes

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E-mailanja.gerbes@gwdg.de

Biography

Anja Gerbes currently works as a community manager at the University of Göttingen, where she collaborates with academic and scientific communities. Alongside her professional role, she is pursuing a doctorate. Her research focuses on developing automated tools for performance engineering in the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC), bridging the disciplines of computer science, computational science, and AI-driven optimization.
Anja Gerbes' research focuses on the intersection of HPC, artificial intelligence, and automated software optimization. Her goal is to bridge the gap between manual performance engineering and AI-driven optimization. Her primary research interest lies in developing methods and tools to automatically improve HPC applications without human intervention.

Research Interests

  • LLM-driven Code Transformation: Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically detect performance bottlenecks in HPC applications and apply intelligent code optimizations.
  • Closed-loop Optimization: Implementing iterative AI feedback loops that continuously analyze, improve, and validate HPC software performance.
  • Adaptive Optimization: Developing systems that dynamically adjust optimization strategies based on runtime behavior and performance metrics.
  • Automated Performance Engineering: Bridging the gap between manual performance tuning and fully automated, AI-driven optimization processes.
  • Intelligent HPC Tools: Creating advanced tools that autonomously enhance the efficiency and scalability of HPC applications without human intervention.

Teaching

Open Thesis Topics

Publications

2025

  • Poster: Automatic Instrumentation and PGO Optimiziation of HPC Compute Dwarfs (Anja Gerbes, Panagiotis Adamidis, Julian Kunkel), ISC-HPC, Hamburg,Germany, 2025-06-11 BibTeX PDF

2021

2020

  • The HPC Certification Forum: Toward a Globally Acknowledged HPC Certification (Julian Kunkel, Weronika Filinger, Christian Meesters, Anja Gerbes), In Computing in Science and Engineering, Series: Volume 22, Issue 4, pp. 110-114, IEEE, ISSN: 1558-366X, 2020-07 BibTeX URL DOI PDF
  • Contributing HPC Skills to the HPC Certification Forum (Julian Kunkel, Kai Himstedt, Weronika Filinger, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Anja Gerbes, Lev Lafayette), In Journal of Computational Science Education, Series: Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 106-107, (Editors: Steven I. Gordon), ISSN: 2153-4136, 2020-01 BibTeX URL DOI PDF
  • One Year HPC Certification Forum in Retrospective (Julian Kunkel, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Kai Himstedt, Weronika Filinger, Anja Gerbes, Lev Lafayette), In Journal of Computational Science Education, Series: Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 29-35, (Editors: Steven I. Gordon), ISSN: 2153-4136, 2020-01 BibTeX URL DOI PDF

2019

  • Poster: International HPC Certification Program (Julian Kunkel, Kai Himstedt, Weronika Filinger, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Lev Lafayette, Anja Gerbes, Waseem Kamleh, Sharan Kalwan), ISC High Performance, Frankfurt, Germany, 2019-06-19 BibTeX URL PDF
  • Towards an HPC Certification Program (Julian Kunkel, Kai Himstedt, Nathanael Hübbe, Hinnerk Stüben, Sandra Schröder, Michael Kuhn, Matthias Riebisch, Stephan Olbrich, Thomas Ludwig, Weronika Filinger, Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Anja Gerbes, Lev Lafayette), In Journal of Computational Science Education, Series: Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 88–89, (Editors: Steven I. Gordon), 2019-01-11 BibTeX URL DOI

2018

2017