Summary
Kevin Kiningham is a Member of Technical Staff and Stanford Ph.D. candidate-turned-researcher with 11 years of industry experience designing high-performance hardware and software for machine learning and autonomy. He blends deep academic expertise in electrical engineering—where he focused on accelerators for ML under Prof. Phil Levis—with practical systems experience at Anthropic, Cruise, and Waymo building production-grade software for safety-critical applications. His background includes hardware internships at Google and a visiting research stint at MIT, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency between silicon, accelerator architecture, and large-scale ML systems. Based in San Francisco, Kevin is comfortable moving from circuit-level optimization to deployment concerns, and brings a curious, research-driven approach to production problems that accelerates both model performance and system reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University