Robert Bird
AI ML And HPC Performance Engineer At Google Cloud
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Bird is an AI/ML and HPC performance engineer with nine years of experience optimizing large-scale scientific and production systems, currently focused on accelerating ML and high-performance computing workloads at Google Cloud. He brings a research-rooted approach from a PhD in Computer Science (performance optimization) and years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, blending deep profiling, simulation, and low-level optimization expertise with product-focused performance work at Apple. Comfortable spanning academia and industry, Robert has a track record of turning complex computational kernels into efficient, deployable performance primitives for cloud and on-device environments. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he combines rigorous measurement-driven methodology with practical system engineering to squeeze out sustained throughput and latency gains across AI/ML stacks.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Performance Optimziation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Performance Optimziation at University of Warwick
Github Skills (70)
cpp10
snl-applications10
hpc-applications10
exascale10
high-performance10
portable-library10
load-balancing10
vector10
simulation10
particle10
asynchronous-tasks10
hpc10
hydrodynamics10
proxy9
abstraction9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ECP-copa/CabanaPIC
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Structured PIC proxy app based on Cabana
Contributions:206 commits, 40 PRs, 182 pushes in 2 years 4 months
proxycabanakokkosparticle-in-cellproxy-application
lanl/vpic
Jan 2017 - Feb 2021
Vector Particle-In-Cell (VPIC) Project
Contributions:2 releases, 14 reviews, 242 commits in 4 years 1 month
particlehpc-applicationssnl-applicationshigh-performance-computingparticle-in-cell
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