Presenter

Duane Merrill is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research. His principal research interests are programming model and algorithm design for parallel computing. His work focuses on problems involving sparse, irregular, and cooperative computation. He is the author of CUB, a library of “collective” software primitives to simplify CUDA kernel construction, performance tuning, and maintenance. He received his B.S., M.C.S., and Ph. D. from the University of Virginia.