Nicholas Timmons
Graphics Algorithms Technical Team Lead at Huawei
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Timmons is a Graphics Algorithms Technical Team Lead based in London with 10 years of experience building high-performance, deterministic C++ systems for GPU, AI and compute on mobile and desktop platforms. He blends hands-on algorithm development and driver-level benchmarking with leadership at Huawei, informed by prior roles at AMD, Samsung and Frontier where he shipped rendering systems for complex real-time projects. His Cambridge PhD on approximate computation guides a pragmatic focus on trading precision for performance, and he enjoys applying that research to practical GPU/AI pipelines. Notably, his background spans both low-level pipeline optimisation and applied HCI/robotics prototypes, making him comfortable translating research ideas into production-grade engines and tooling.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Approximate Computation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Approximate Computation at University of CambridgeBSc Computer Graphics Science, BSc Computer Graphics Science at Teesside University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (90)
deep-learning10
data-science10
flux10
machine-learning10
feed9
julia9
approximate9
notebook9
activation-function9
hardware9
jupyter9
jupyter-notebook9
tensor8
theano8
multidimensional-arrays7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NTimmons/ImportAll.jl
Nov 2018 - Jan 2020
@importall(package) macro for Julia
Contributions:5 releases, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
julia
NTimmons/FastActivations.jl
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
A collection of activation function approximations for Flux.
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
activation-function
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