His work focuses on developing HPC infrastructures to enable the efficient processing of big data applications using optimized solution alternatives for system performance, memory, power, etc. Dr. Al-Ars is also cofounder of Bluebee, a big data company specialized in high performance genomics solutions. Prior to joining the TUDelft, Dr. Al-Ars spent a number of years in the Product Engineering Group of Infineon Technologies and Siemens Semiconductors in Munich, Germany.