!!!Henri Bal
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 2005-now, Full Professor, VU University Amsterdam,  Department of Computer Science
* 1998,  Full Professor, VU University Amsterdam,  Department of Computer Science (0.8) and Department of Physics and Astronomy (0.2) 
* 1994, Associate Professor, VU University Amsterdam,  Computer Science
* 1990, 04, Assistant Professor, VU University Amsterdam, Computer Science
* 1989, 10, Visiting researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology + University of Arizona + Imperial College, London (on one combined grant)
* 1982,  Research assistant, VU University Amsterdam,  Computer Science
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__Honours and Awards__
* Winner of an NWO PIONIER award (1993-1997), this was a highly prestigious award of the Netherlands science foundation to set up a new research group (comparable to an ERC starting grant now)
* Clifford Pickover’s “The Math Book,”  lists the work on solving the game of Awari as one of the 250 greatest achievements in the entire history of mathematics. 
* Bal's group has won many awards in international competitions, in application domains like astronomy, multimedia, and semantic web:
**First International Data Analysis Challenge for Finding Supernovae, at IEEE Cluster/Grid 2008, First Prize Winner both in the basic and fault tolerant category (2 awards)
**First IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2008), at CCGrid 2008, for the entry "Scalable Wall-Socket Multimedia Grid Computing".
**Third IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE2010), at CCGrid 2010, for the entry "WebPIE: a Web-scale Parallel Inference Engine"
*Hentri Bal's PhD students won several awards:
**The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award 2010 was won by Willem de Bruijn , PhD student of Herbert Bos and Henri Bal
**The EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award 2013  was won by Asia Slowinska, PhD student of Herbert Bos and Henri Bal
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