Carsten Benthin
Senior Fellow at AMD
Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolCarsten Benthin is a seasoned semiconductor and systems engineering leader with 12 years of industry experience and a PhD in Computer Science from Universität des Saarlandes. He has progressed through research and principal engineering roles at Intel before joining AMD as a Senior Fellow, blending deep research expertise with practical product impact. Carsten is experienced in bridging long-term research and immediate engineering needs, driving architecture and innovation across high-performance computing platforms. Based in Saarbrücken, he combines academic rigor with corporate-scale execution, mentoring teams and influencing cross-organizational technical strategy. A quietly influential technologist, he tends to focus on turning complex hardware-software co-design problems into deployable solutions rather than on public-facing contributions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
French, English
Github Skills (19)
intel10
llvm10
embree10
oneapi10
ray10
staging9
sycl9
rendering7
renderer7
optix5
path-tracing5
visualization5
volume-rendering4
raytracing4
rendering-engine4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RenderKit/embree
Nov 2013 - May 2021
Embree ray tracing kernels repository.
Contributions:15 releases, 3924 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 7 months
raytracingray-tracingkernelsembree
embree/embree.github.com
Dec 2013 - May 2021
Embree organization site at github.
Contributions:47 commits, 20 pushes in 7 years 5 months
embreeorganization-site
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