Presenter

Michael Garland is the Director of Programming Systems Research at NVIDIA. Dr. Garland holds B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and was previously an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published numerous articles in leading conferences and journals on a range of topics including mesh processing, computer graphics, scientific visualization, and parallel computing. His current research interests include parallel algorithms for sparse linear algebra and graph analytics, parallel programming models, and high-performance programming systems.