Oreste Villa
Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA
United States
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Top SchoolOreste Villa is a senior research manager at NVIDIA with a decade-long track record in computer architecture, parallel programming, runtimes, and high-performance and embedded systems. He combines deep hardware–software co-design expertise with practical experience modeling system-level performance, power, and scalability across embedded, desktop, server, and HPC platforms. Prior to NVIDIA he led HPC research at PNNL, directing projects on heterogeneous computing, graph-oriented many-core design, and runtime support for large-scale data applications. He holds a Ph.D. from Politecnico di Milano and is known for turning comparative studies and simulations into actionable architectural insights that influence both hardware and software directions. An often-overlooked strength is his hands-on experience across diverse architectures—from GPUs and Cray systems to CELL B.E.—which gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on performance trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electronic Engineering, 110/110, Master of Science (M.S.), Electronic Engineering, 110/110 at Università degli Studi di CagliariDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Politecnico di MilanoMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Embedded Systems Design, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Embedded Systems Design at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)
English, Italian, French
Github Skills (24)
modular9
intel9
implicit9
clang8
toolchain8
llvm7
vectorization7
x867
avx7
cpu7
spmd7
simd6
compiler6
x86-646
microarchitecture6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NVlabs/NVBit
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 2 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
dnellans/2017-MICRO
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:32 pushes in 4 months
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