Jacob Tørring
Research Engineer, AI Systems at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Tørring is a research engineer specializing in AI systems and empirical program optimization for high-performance computing. As a PhD candidate at NTNU, he researches autotuning and HPC applications, building on international stints as a visiting researcher at Stanford and a graduate exchange student at KAIST. He currently drives AI systems work at 1X while pursuing doctoral research, blending hands-on DevOps leadership with rigorous algorithmic exploration. His background spans systems administration, teaching leadership, and software engineering across academia and industry, enabling pragmatic transitions from research to production. Based in Menlo Park, he brings a global perspective and a track record of shipping scalable HPC and AI deployments. He contributes to advancing autotuning and HPC through both scholarly work and practical deployment expertise.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Researcher, Computer Science, Visiting Student Researcher, Computer Science at Stanford UniversityGraduate exchange student, Computer Science, Graduate exchange student, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and Technology
English, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (29)
ios10
mobile-game10
anova10
statistical-tests10
taiko10
ttest9
auto-tuning9
benchmarking9
standardized9
autotuning9
kernel9
cuda9
statistics8
benchmark8
bayesian-statistics8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
NTNU-HPC-Lab/BAT
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
A GPU benchmark suite for autotuners
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 146 commits in 1 year 1 month
cudakernelgpu-programmingbenchmarkingbenchmark-suite
Viestinta/viestinta
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 109 PRs, 252 pushes in 6 months
communication
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