Important announcement

Dear visitor,

Please note that this OpenCourseWare platform will be replaced at the end of 2026 by a new platform (under the same url ocw.tudelft.nl).

Courses and their contents that are currently available the platform will partly be migrated. URL’s for this content will change and content might be unavailable for some time. In addition, some courses will not be available anymore.

If you are linking to specific courses on this platform (for instance for your students), please take timely measures to avoid problems with access. Possible actions are:

  • Download the materials to your local platform (laptop, server)
  • For educators only (including TU Delft lecturers): Contact us at ocw@tudelft.nl and inform us what course you are using in what context (institute, program, period of use, number of students). We will research (in collaboration with the authors of the course) and decide if we will migrate the course, and if yes, can supply you with a new url.

Thank you.

Home Teachers Z. Al-Ars

Dr. Ir. Zaid Al-Ars

Zaid Al-Ars is an assistant professor at the Computer Engineering Lab of the Delft University of Technology, where he leads the research and education activities of the multi/many-core research theme of the lab. His work focuses on addressing the bottlenecks in multicore architectures and proposing optimized solution alternatives for system performance, memory, power, reliability, etc. The research interests of Dr. Al-Ars include:

  • Methods for application domain analysis and mapping to appropriate multicore architectures (CPU, GPU, FPGA)
  • Design and optimization of interconnect solutions to improve system performance and relieve data transfer bottlenecks
  • Test and reliability improvement for multicore systems using the abundant computational resources available in these systems
  • Analysis and development of multicore systems to accelerate bio-informatics and other big data applications

Dr. Al-Ars is also a co-founder of Bluebee, a high-tech startup active in the intersection between the fields of cloud computing, high-performance computing and genomics applications. Prior to joining the TUDelft, Dr. Al-Ars spent a number of years in the Product Engineering Group of Infineon Technologies and Siemens Semiconductors in Munich, Germany, where he was responsible for constructing new test methodologies to reduce the overall cost of the memory production test flow.

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