Nicholas Curtis

Nicholas is a Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) in the Data Center GPU Solutions and Performance Analysis group at AMD. Nick has led AMD’s efforts working on porting and optimizing Kokkos’ HIP backend, and was responsible for LAMMPS porting and optimization for the Frontier Center of Excellence. Nick obtained his PhD in Energy and Thermal Sciences at the University of Connecticut, where he studied GPU-accelerated reacting flow simulation. Nick’s research interests include high-level languages and their implementation on GPUs, compiler and runtime analysis and optimization, low-level GPU microbenchmarking and profiling, and the interaction of GPU hardware and runtimes with the Linux kernel.