Paul Petersen
Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolPaul Petersen is an Intel Fellow and veteran software architect with over 30 years of experience specializing in developer tools, parallelism, and compiler/runtime technologies. He has led software architecture for Intel’s oneAPI and developer tools, evolving products like Thread Checker into today’s Inspector and Advisor tools that help developers find concurrency, memory, and performance issues. Paul combines deep academic roots—a PhD from UIUC in data dependence and parallelization—with hands-on product leadership dating back to Kuck & Associates and the early OpenMP era. He’s known for mentoring teams to unlock creative solutions to problems others haven’t yet recognized as critical, translating research prototypes into production-grade tooling. Based in Austin, he balances systems-level insight with practical engineering, having guided pathfinding efforts that shaped how developers modernize serial applications for parallel execution. An understated strength is his ability to bridge long-term research agendas with pragmatic developer workflows, ensuring innovations deliver measurable developer productivity gains.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at University of Nebraska-LincolnPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (32)
apl10
pytorch10
group-policy10
intel10
python10
jupyter10
rendering10
cpu10
fortran10
mxnet10
curve-fitting10
power-management10
sycl10
oneapi10
trellis10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oneapi-src/oneAPI-samples
Aug 2020 - Aug 2024
Samples for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
Contributions:217 reviews, 173 comments in 4 years 1 month
numbatoolkitsswrepoaplpower-management
IntelLabs/ParallelAccelerator.jl
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 comment in 10 months
scriptinggpuintelperformanceparallel-computing
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