Presenter

Bradford Chamberlain is a Principal Engineer at Cray Inc. where he works on parallel programming models, focusing primarily on the design and implementation of the Chapel language in his role as technical lead for that project. Brad received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2001 where he focused on the design and implementation of the ZPL parallel array language, particularly on its concept of the region -- a first-class index set supporting global-view data parallelism. In the past, he has also worked on languages for embedded reconfigurable processors and on algorithms for accelerating the rendering of complex 3D scenes. Brad remains associated with the University of Washington as an affiliate faculty member. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with honors from Stanford University in 1992.