{"id":5281,"date":"2025-01-30T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/?p=5281"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:25:46","slug":"successful-phd-defense-by-marcel-aach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/2025\/01\/30\/successful-phd-defense-by-marcel-aach\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful PhD defense by Marcel Aach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marcel Aach <a href=\"https:\/\/english.hi.is\/doctoral-defense-computational-engineering-marcel-aach\">defended yesterday successfully his PhD thesis<\/a> on <em>Parallel and Scalable Hyperparameter Optimization for Distributed Deep Learning Methods on High-Performance Computing Systems<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2025\/01\/phdmarcel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"706\" height=\"1208\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2025\/01\/phdmarcel.jpg 706w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2025\/01\/phdmarcel-392x670.jpg 392w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2025\/01\/phdmarcel-598x1024.jpg 598w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2025\/01\/phdmarcel-88x150.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marcel's research was rooted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/research\/horizon-2020-centre-of-excellence-for-research-on-ai-and-simulation-based-engineering-at-exascale-raise-2021-2023\/\">CoE RAISE project<\/a>. This PhD is an example of the collaboration between the <a href=\"https:\/\/english.hi.is\/about-ui\/schools-and-faculties\/school-engineering-and\/faculty-industrial-engineering-mechanical-engineering-and\">Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fz-juelich.de\/ias\/jsc\/EN\/Home\/home_node.html\">J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2023\/09\/EN-Funded-by-the-EU-POS-150x31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"31\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2023\/09\/EN-Funded-by-the-EU-POS-150x31.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2023\/09\/EN-Funded-by-the-EU-POS-670x141.jpg 670w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2023\/09\/EN-Funded-by-the-EU-POS-768x161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/files\/2023\/09\/EN-Funded-by-the-EU-POS.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcel Aach defended yesterday successfully his PhD thesis on Parallel and Scalable Hyperparameter Optimization for Distributed Deep Learning Methods on High-Performance Computing Systems. Marcel's research was rooted in the CoE RAISE project. This PhD is an example of the collaboration between the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science and J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5281\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}