Arch Robison
Principal System Software Engineer at Nvidia
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolArch Robison is a Principal System Software Engineer with over 25 years of systems and compiler experience, currently driving system software at NVIDIA from Champaign, Illinois. He has deep expertise in parallel programming, compiler optimizations, and runtime systems developed across influential roles at Intel (leading Intel TBB), KAI (lead developer of KAI C++), and earlier research on high-performance computing platforms. His work spans prototyping language and compiler features for ISO C++, contributions to Julia vectorization and aliasing, and practical implementations of production seismic codes and transactional memory ideas. Known for translating research into shipping products, he combines academic rigor (MS/PhD in Computer Science from UIUC) with hands-on low-level engineering and developer education. Less obvious: he has a long history of anticipating hardware–software co-design needs, prototyping compilers and fast code generators for emerging architectures. He thrives at the intersection of parallel algorithms, compilers, and system software, mentoring teams to bring complex optimizations into real-world toolchains.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityDowningtown High SchoolMS+PhD, Computer Science, MS+PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
3,939reputation
180kreached
88answers
11questions
parallel-processing
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multithreading
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Github Skills (50)
pytorch10
programming-language10
artificial-intelligence10
numerical10
machine-learning10
conditionals10
julialang10
abstraction10
hpc10
onnx10
keras10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
ai10
scikit-learn10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ArchRobison/zapif
Sep 2016 - Jul 2025
Algebraically remove C preprocessor conditionals
Contributions:11 PRs, 37 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 11 months
c-preprocessorconditionals
ArchRobison/julia
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:134 pushes, 39 branches, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
julia-languageapproachtechnical-computingcomputingjulia
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