Artur Mariano

Artur Mariano
Staff member at Scientific Computing Group - TUDarmstadt
Education
2012–Present PhD candidate, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
Thesis: “High performance practical cryptanalysis for lattice-based cryptography”
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Bischof
2010–2012 MSc of Informatics Engineering, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
Thesis: “Scheduling (ir)regular applications on heterogeneous platforms”, GPA: 18/20
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Alberto Proença
2011 Internship (Advanced Computing), University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Project: “Regular and irregular algorithms on FPGAs”, Grade: A
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerstlauer and Prof. Dr. Derek Chiou
2007–2010 BSc of Informatics Engineering, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
GPA: 14/20, within the best 25% students.
Experience
Academia
2012–present Staff member, Scientific Computing Group at TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.
Lecture assistant, design of exams and grading process, writing of grant proposals.
Students: Fábio Correia (MSc at University of Minho, intern at Scientific Computing Group), Cristiano
Sousa (MSc at University of Minho) and Thomas Arnreich (BSc at TU Darmstadt)
Topics taught: OpenMP (2012, 2013, 2014) and CUDA (2012, 2014)
Research deals with the use of high-end computer architectures to run algorithms that solve important
problems in lattices, very important structures in the context of lattice-based cryptography.
2011–2012 Researcher, LabCG at UMinho, Braga, Portugal.
Researcher in High Performance Computing. Research member of the GAMA project, a framework for
execution of C++ code on heterogeneous CPU+GPU platforms. Design and implementation of the
task-scheduler performance model of the framework.
Technologies: C++, CUDA, Unix, pThreads, OpenMP;
2010–2011 Researcher, Physics department at UMinho, Braga, Portugal.
Software engineer (grant holder) in the “Crystalline Lens Imaging with a slit-scanning system” research
project, led by Prof. Dr. Sandra Franco. Project funded by the Portuguese Funding Agency for
Science and Technology (FCT). Development of a tool to model human eye components, in 3 stages:
edge-detection through image processing, curve fitting processes and model generation.
Technologies: Java, Java threads, OpenGL, image processing;
Scientific Computing Group, Mornewegstr. 30 – 64293, Darmstadt, Germany
H (+49) 176 61453945 • B artur.mariano@sc.tu-darmstadt.de
Í http://alfa.di.uminho.pt/~ammm

Languages
Native
Proficient
Independent
Basic
Portuguese
English and Spanish (Castilian)
German
French and Finnish
Additional Training
Summer
School
Doctoral
Retreat
Programming and Tuning Massively Parallel Systems, Wen-mei W. Hwu and David B.
Kirk, Barcelona, Spain, July 7-11, 2014.
SPPEXA Doctoral Retreat 20130, “Application & Algorithm: Combination of Software
Tools and Programming”, Darmstadt, Germany, September 16-20, 2013.
Awards
Stipend
07.2015
Stipend
09.2014
Travel grant
08.2014
To ACACES Summer School (HiPEAC event), 11 th International Summer School
on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and
Embedded Systems, Awarded on the basis of CV selection. EUR 1000,00 lodging funds.
To Latincrypt, 3 th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security
in Latin America, Awarded on the basis of a talk proposal. ≈USD $1200,00 lodging funds.
To PQCrypto, 6 th International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, Travel
Stipend, awarded on the basis of CV selection. CAD $1.800 (≈1225e).
Service
EuroPar’15
HPC-UA’14
SOC’14
ICPP’15
PDP’15
SBAC-PAD’14
Latincrypt’14
Sub-reviewer on the “Multicore and Manycore Programming” track.
Technical/Expert Program Committee Member.
Technical Program Committee Member.
Publications
Scientific papers ( ⋆ included presentation)
Parallel (probable) lock-free HashSieve: a practical sieving algorithm for the SVP,
Artur Mariano, Thijs Laarhoven and Christian Bischof, ICPP’15 - 44th International Conference
on Parallel Processing, Beijing, China, September 1-4, 2015. Acceptance Rate:
32.5%.
A Generic and Highly Efficient Parallel Variant of Boruvka’s Algorithm, Cristiano da
Silva Sousa, Artur Mariano and Alberto Proença, PDP’15 - 23rd Euromicro International
Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, Turku, Finland, March
4-6, 2015. Acceptance Rate: 28/31%.
Lock-free GaussSieve for Linear Speedups in Parallel High Performance SVP Calculation,
Artur Mariano ⋆ , Shahar Timnat and Christian Bischof, SBAC-PAD - 26th International
Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Paris, France,
October 22-24, 2014. Acceptance Rate: 32%.
Tuning GaussSieve for Speed, Robert Fitzpatrick, Christian Bischof, Johannes Buchmann,
Özgür Dagdelen, Florian Göpfert, Artur Mariano ⋆ and Bo-Yin Yang, LATINCRYPT’14 -
3rd International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America,
Florianopolis, Brazil, September 17-19, 2014. Acceptance Rate: 39.6%.
Scientific Computing Group, Mornewegstr. 30 – 64293, Darmstadt, Germany
H (+49) 176 61453945 • B artur.mariano@sc.tu-darmstadt.de
Í http://alfa.di.uminho.pt/~ammm

INForum’14
Paralelizacão de Algoritmos de Enumeação para o Problema do Vector mais Curto
em Sistemas de Memória Partilhada e Distribuída" (in Portuguese), Fábio Correia,
Artur Mariano and Alberto Proença, INForum’14 - Simpósio de Informática, Porto, Portugal,
September 4-5, 2014.
APCIE’14 A comprehensive empirical comparison of parallel ListSieve and GaussSieve,
Artur Mariano ⋆ , Özgür Dagdelen and Christian Bischof, Workshop on Applications of Parallel
Computation in Industry and Engineering (in conjunction with Euro-Par), Porto, Portugal,
August 25-29, 2014.
SOC’13
IESS’13
SW and HW Speculative Nelder-Mead Execution for High Performance Unconstrained
Optimization, Artur Mariano ⋆ , Tiago Gomes and Paulo Garcia, SOC’13 - International
Symposium on System-on-Chip, Tampere, Finland, October 23-24, 2013.
Hardware and Software Implementations of Prim’s Algorithm for Efficient Minimum
Spanning Tree Computation, Artur Mariano ⋆ , Dongwook Lee, Andreas Gerstlauer and
Derek Chiou, IESS’13 - International Embedded Systems Symposium, Paderborn, Germany,
17-19 June, 2013.
HPC-UA’12 A (ir)regularity-aware task scheduler for heterogeneous platforms, Artur Mariano ⋆ ,
Ricardo Alves, Joao Barbosa, Luis Paulo Santos and Alberto Proenca, 2nd International
Conference on High Performance Computing, Kiev, Ukraine, 8-10 October, 2012.
IJI’12
UMinho’12
High-performance recognition of corneas and crystalline lens from highly-noisy images,
Artur Mariano and Sandra Franco, International Journal of Imaging, vol. 6(12), 2012.
Theses
Scheduling (ir)regular applications on heterogeneous platforms, Artur Mariano, MSc
Thesis in Informatics Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2012.
Trivia
My Erdös number is three, via Johannes Buchmann.
Scientific Computing Group, Mornewegstr. 30 – 64293, Darmstadt, Germany
H (+49) 176 61453945 • B artur.mariano@sc.tu-darmstadt.de
Í http://alfa.di.uminho.pt/~ammm