Fabian Knorr
Research Staff at Isar Interactive GmbH & Co. KG
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolFabian Knorr is a research-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance systems in C, C++ and Rust, and researching accelerator programming with CUDA and SYCL. Based in Innsbruck, he combines work on data compression, compiler construction and quantitative performance analysis to make scientific applications efficient and accessible on heterogeneous hardware. His open-source contributions include improving hipSYCL support and runtime profiling for the AdaptiveCpp compiler, helping applications adapt to diverse CPU/GPU vendors at runtime. Fabian has applied research insights to production problems—shipping resource-efficient, search-based AI for trick-taking card games and engineering CI/test automation for a game studio. He favors rigorous API design for safety and speed and frequently bridges low-level systems work with Python and web frontends for visualization and developer tooling. That blend of practical product impact and deep systems research makes him effective at turning performance research into usable software.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Universität Passau
German, English
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
gpgpu10
sycl10
compiler-compiler10
gpu10
compiler10
cprogramming-language10
testing9
cluster-computing9
accelerated-computing9
parallel-computing9
scientific-computing9
high-performance9
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AdaptiveCpp/AdaptiveCpp
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Compiler for multiple programming models (SYCL, C++ standard parallelism, HIP/CUDA) for CPUs and GPUs from all vendors: The independent, community-driven compiler for C++-based heterogeneous programming models. Lets applications adapt themselves to all the hardware in the system - even at runtime!
Role in this project:
Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:26 reviews, 17 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Fabian made several contributions focused on improving the hipSYCL compiler's functionality and stability. They fixed compiler warnings related to deprecated copy constructors and addressing issues in explicit host-to-device/device-to-host copy operations. Additionally, the user added unit tests and implemented queue profiling features, enhancing the testing and monitoring capabilities of the project. Finally, the user worked on extending private memory support and implementing various accessor features.
cudaclanggpuhigh-performance-computingrocm
celerity/slurmactiond
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:100 commits, 60 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
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