Oyekunle Olukotun

Oyekunle Olukotun is the Cadence Design Systems Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He is a pioneer in multicore processor design who leads the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor research project. He founded Afara Websystems, which developed the Niagara multicore processor, and co-founded SambaNova Systems, a machine learning and artificial intelligence company. Olukotun directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, which seeks to proliferate the use of heterogeneous parallelism in all application areas using Domain Specific Languages. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan.