Albert-Jan N. Yzelman is a Research Scientist and Expert at the Computing Systems Laboratory in the Huawei Zürich Research Center, and previously held Senior and Principal research positions at Huawei Paris. He obtained his doctorate from Utrecht University, and has held post-doctoral positions at KU Leuven and the Intel ExaScience Labs. His research interests center around paradigms for irregular and parallel computing, focusing on easy to use, yet high-performance, scalable, as well as portable programming principles and associated system design.