Gennady Pekhimenko
Senior Director, AI Software at MLPerf
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGennady Pekhimenko is a seasoned systems and AI software leader with 12+ years of experience bridging industry and academia, currently Senior Director of AI Software at NVIDIA and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He has led research and product efforts across Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, Google, Intel and IBM, uncovering real-world inefficiencies in GPU utilization that inspired the creation of CentML to optimize training and inference costs. As a founding member of MLPerf and Research Co-Chair at MLCommons, he shapes benchmarking and ecosystem standards for ML performance. His academic work focuses on efficient memory systems and ML hardware acceleration, reflected in numerous publications and roles at the Vector Institute and CIFAR. Unusually, his career arc spans deep compiler and architecture roots (from IBM and Qualcomm projects) through entrepreneurial productization, giving him rare end-to-end expertise in squeezing more value from existing AI infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor / Part-time Biochemistry, Bachelor / Part-time Biochemistry at Taurida 'V. I. Vernadskiy' National University, SimferopolHigh School, High School at Simferopol School #7MSc. Computer Science, MSc. Computer Science at University of TorontoPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (7)
ranking9
science8
computer-science7
react7
machine-learning1
benchmark1
inference1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gpekhimenko/CSrankings
Jul 2017 - Sep 2021
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues.
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 2 months
reactscienceresearch-outputselectivedepartments
CMU-SAFARI/BDICompression
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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