Teaching & Lectures

During my tenure as Professor at OST Fachhochschule (2011-2022), I taught courses on parallel programming, compiler design, and software engineering. The course "Parallel Programming" consistently received highly positive student feedback and contributed to my receiving the university-wide Best Teacher Award. I also served as Visiting Professor at UCI Irvine, where I lectured on compiler and runtime system design, receiving top course ratings from students. Selected lecture materials are available below.

Parallel Programming

  • Format: Swiss 14-Week Semester
  • Language: Slides in German
  • Institution: OST Fachhochschule

Comprehensive 14-week course covering the theory and practice of concurrent and parallel programming. Students learn to design, implement, and debug multi-threaded applications across different programming models and hardware platforms.

Week 1 Multi-Threaded Programming Week 2 Monitor Synchronization Week 3 Specific Synchronization Primitives Week 4 Concurrency Errors Week 5 Thread Pools Week 6 Task Parallel Library Week 7 GUI and Threading Week 8 Memory Models Week 9 Actor Model Week 10 GPU Parallelization 1 Week 11 GPU Parallelization 2 Week 12 Cluster Parallelization Week 13 Reactive Programming Week 14 Transactional Memory

Compiler and Runtime System Design

  • Format: US 10-Week Quarter
  • Institution: UCI Irvine (Visiting Professor)

Practical 10-week course where students build a complete compiler and virtual machine from scratch. Emphasizes hands-on implementation of core compiler and runtime system concepts.

Week 1 Introduction, Lexical Analysis Week 2 Syntactic Analysis Week 3 Syntactic Analysis, Semantic Analysis Week 4 Code Generation and Optimization Week 5 Code Analysis Week 6 Virtual Machine and Interpretation Week 7 Object-Oriented Runtime Support Week 8 Garbage Collection Week 9 Just-In-Time Compilation Week 10 Summary and Review

Related Resources

The Compiler course materials complement my textbook Modern Runtime System and Compiler Design (2021), which provides comprehensive coverage of these topics with practical implementations. Visit the book website →