Josef Spjut
Senior Research Scientist at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosef Spjut is a Senior Research Scientist with nine years of industry experience specializing in graphics, AR/VR, and real-time systems research at NVIDIA, where he contributed to RT core feasibility and performance, HMD display research, and esports system/user studies. He blends deep computer-architecture expertise from a PhD with hands-on work across GPU microarchitecture, rendering performance, and interactive multi-user applications, believing games and shared virtual experiences are central to future socialization. Josef also teaches graduate students as an adjunct at Duke and has a track record of designing computing platforms and tools dating back to academic projects like TRaX and FPGA soft-core exploration. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous simulation and user-facing system design, delivering research that moves from cycle-accurate models to improved real-world VR and esports experiences.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahB.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at University of California, Riverside
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (6)
monitor2
webgl1
warp1
visualization1
siggraph1
rendering1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jspjutNV/FPSci
Sep 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
jspjutNV/latencyExpEHPHCI21
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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