Gulsum Gudukbay Akbulut#
Gulsum Gudukbay Akbulut is a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) software development engineer at AMD’s JAX team, advancing JAX on ROCm with a focus on backend integration, release engineering, and developer experience. She also helps maintain and evolve the ROCm/MaxText repository that is used for large‑scale training, making developer experience smoother and more reliable across the AMD ecosystem.
Before joining AMD, Gulsum earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State. Her doctoral research focused on performance optimization and resource allocation for emerging architectures and high-performance computing applications. She explored ways to improve energy efficiency in processors, dynamic scheduling in multi-GPU systems, and compiler-guided optimization for multithreaded workloads. That experience shaped her interest in performance and scalability in real-world ML environments. She is passionate about supporting and maintaining JAX for ROCm, helping ensure that AMD users can run their workloads efficiently. She cares about practical performance, user-friendly and transparent tooling, and open-source collaboration—aiming to help researchers and engineers do more with AMD GPUs.
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