Athena Elafrou
Developer Technology Engineer at NVIDIA
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAthena Elafrou is a Developer Technology Engineer at NVIDIA with 13 years of experience specializing in performance engineering for heterogeneous and parallel architectures. She focuses on mapping algorithms efficiently to emerging specialized hardware, blending deep academic training in electrical and computer engineering with hands-on experience optimizing real-world workloads. Her background includes HPC consultancy at the University of Cambridge and research internships at Movidius where she tackled embedded deep learning and sparse linear algebra on Myriad devices. Athena’s work sits at the intersection of algorithm design, programming models, and system-level performance, anticipating the challenges of the post-Moore era. Comfortable bridging research and production needs, she brings an uncommon combination of practical optimization skill and long-term architectural vision.
13 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, Greek, French
Github Skills (22)
sparse10
sampling10
interoperability9
manifold9
ice9
optimization8
python8
fortran8
kernel8
pytorch7
machine-learning7
keras7
deep-learning7
mat6
vec5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cslab-ntua/sparsex
Jan 2013 - Jun 2018
The SparseX sparse kernel optimization library
Contributions:6 releases, 64 commits, 4 pushes in 5 years 5 months
kerneloptimizationsparsemanifoldsampling
Excalibur-SLE/spmv
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Distributed sparse mat-vec library with CG solver
Contributions:10 PRs, 93 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 1 month
sparsesolvervecmatdistributed
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