Presenter

Martin Kong is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science OU. He joined OU in August of 2019. Prior to that, he spent 2 years at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) as an Assistant Computational Scientist in the Computational Science Initiative Department. His work focuses on compiler and runtime optimizations that enable performance portability of application codes, in particular, by using polyhedral compilation techniques. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2016, from The Ohio State University, where he was advised by Prof. Sadayappan and Prof. Louis-Noël Pouchet. Prior to joining BNL, Dr. Kong was a Post-Doctoral Research Scholar in Prof. Vivek Sarkar’s Habanero Exascale group at Rice University. Dr. Kong co-chaired the 2018 polyhedral compilation workshop, IMPACT, held in Manchester, UK.