Anja Gerbes

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.

• 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.

• 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

• Poster: Performance Analysis and Source-Code Instrumentation Toolsuite (PASCIT) (Anja Gerbes, Julian Kunkel), PASC, Geneva,Switzerland, 2021-07-06 BibTeX URL PDF

• 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

• 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

• Poster: Advanced Computation and I/O Methods for Earth-System Simulations (AIMES) (Julian Kunkel, Thomas Ludwig, Thomas Dubos, Naoya Maruyama, Takayuki Aoki, Günther Zängl, Hisashi Yashiro, Ryuji Yoshida, Hirofumi Tomita, Masaki Satoh, Yann Meurdesoif, Nabeeh Jumah, Anastasiia Novikova, Anja Gerbes), ISC HPC, Frankfurt, Germany, 2018-06-26 BibTeX URL PDF
• Poster: Automatic Profiling for Climate Modeling (Anja Gerbes, Nabeeh Jumah, Julian Kunkel), Euro LLVM, Bristol, United Kingdom, 2018-04-17 BibTeX URL PDF

• Poster: Intelligent Selection of Compiler Options to Optimize Compile Time and Performance (Anja Gerbes, Julian Kunkel, Nabeeh Jumah), Euro LLVM, Saarbrücken, 2017-03-27 BibTeX URL PDF