Dr. Wim Heirman Member IEEE Volunteer

Aalter, Oost-Vlaanderen , Belgium  •  IEEE Benelux Section
Biography
I am a computer architecture researcher and practitioner based in Ghent, Belgium. I am currently working as a research scientist and principal engineer for Intel Corporation. Between August 2003 and December 2013, I was a Ph.D. student and later a post-doc at the Computer Systems Lab, which is part of the Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) department of Ghent University in Belgium.
Interests
Computer architecture
Experience
Intel Corp
IEEE Volunteer Positions
Current Positions
Conference Workforce Member IV
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Performance A
Jan 2025 - May 2027
Past Positions
Conference Workforce Member III
2025 IEEE International Symposium on Performance A
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
Publications
Sriram Aananthakrishnan, Shamsul AbedinVincent CavéFabio ChecconiKristof Du BoisStijn Eyerman, et al., "The Intel Programmable and Integrated Unified Memory Architecture Graph Analytics Processor," IEEE Micro, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 78 - 87, 2023.
Wim Heirman, Stijn EyermanKristof Du Bois, and Ibrahim Hur, "RIO}: {ROB}-Centric In-Order Modeling of Out-of-Order Processors," IEEE} Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 78 - -81, 2021.
Stijn Eyerman, Wim Heirman, and Ibrahim Hur, "Modeling {DRAM} Timing in Parallel Simulators With Immediate-Response Memory Model," IEEE} Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 90 - -93, 2021.
Wenjie Liu, Wim HeirmanStijn EyermanShoaib Akram, and Lieven Eeckhout, "Scale-Model Simulation," IEEE} Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 175 - -178, 2021.
Wim Heirman, Stijn EyermanKristof Du Bois, and Ibrahim Hur, "Automatic Sublining for Efficient Sparse Memory Accesses," ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1 - 23, 2021.
Education
Ghent University
Doctor of Philosophy
Engineering , 2008