Eric Phipps
Senior Member Of The Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolEric Phipps is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories with 23 years of engineering experience and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University. He specializes in high-performance C++ and memory-aware systems, contributing to the Kokkos performance portability ecosystem by improving device-capable view constructors and fine-grained memory alignment controls. At Sandia he blends deep numerical and systems expertise to solve large-scale scientific computing challenges and mentor technical peers. His work on Kokkos demonstrates a pragmatic focus on enabling portable, efficient parallel execution across heterogeneous hardware. Based in Albuquerque, he brings a research-driven mindset to production-grade tooling and build systems, often surfacing subtle but impactful fixes in build and memory management code. Known for tackling low-level correctness and portability issues, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on implementation.
23 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics at Cornell University
Github Skills (11)
cluster-computing10
abstraction10
cpp10
high-performance10
parallel-computing10
cplus10
scientific-computing10
accelerated-computing10
k10
memory-management9
cmake8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kokkos/kokkos
Jan 2016 - Sep 2022
Kokkos C++ Performance Portability Programming Ecosystem: The Programming Model - Parallel Execution and Memory Abstraction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 7 PRs, 113 comments in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the Kokkos library by addressing issues related to memory management and view creation. They added the `KOKKOS_INLINE_FUNCTION` macro to experimental view constructors, enabling their use in device code. They also fixed an issue within the pure CMake build example by creating a variable and adding TPL include directories. Further contributions include adding the ability to control the memory alignment threshold and modifying existing functions to allow for custom scalar types.
memorympic-plus-plusmulti-threadingkokkos
sandialabs/GenTen
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 197 pushes in 9 months
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