Michael K. Bane

Dr. Michael K. Bane is a Senior Lecturer in Green Software Engineering & Performance Computing at Manchester Metropolitan University, within the Department of Computing & Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Engineering. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and founder of GreenCompute.UK, he leads the university's Greener Compute Club and the £120K UKRI Net Zero project "ENERGETIC" on heterogeneous computing for carbon reduction.

• Current teaching: Unit Lead for High Performance Computing & Big Data (UG/MSc) and Green Software Engineering modules
• Previous roles: University of Liverpool lecturer, UKRI Hartree Centre research scientist, and University of Manchester HPC team leader

Research focuses on Energy Efficient Performant Computing (EEPC), exploring:

• Heterogeneous architectures (FPGA/GPU/accelerator integration)
• Carbon-aware scheduling systems
• Quantifying ICT's environmental footprint
• Green AI development
• Emerging hardware-software synergies

Key contributions:

• Co-edited Introduction to Aerosol Modelling: From Theory to Code (2022)
• Authored 20+ publications on HPC, parallel algorithms, and sustainable computing
• Recipient of EMS 'best paper' award for climate modeling work