Tao Schardl
Principal Software Engineer at Emerald Innovations
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTao Schardl is a Principal Software Engineer and MIT CSAIL Research Scientist who co-leads the Supertech group and serves as Chief Architect of the open-source OpenCilk project, specializing in making parallel and high-performance software accessible to everyday programmers. With over a decade of experience spanning government research, graduate teaching, and industry engineering, he brings deep expertise in algorithms, programming-language design, and performance engineering. Tao’s work blends rigorous research—earning a Ph.D. from MIT—with practical tool and runtime development that helps developers write faster, more predictable code. Based in Cambridge, MA, he is known for translating principled academic ideas into production-quality systems, a skill reflected in stewardship of a modern Cilk implementation used by both researchers and practitioners.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (167)
webots10
python10
deep-learning10
computer-graphics10
cpp10
ros10
cudnn10
mesh-processing10
robotics10
rendering10
cluster-computing10
neural-network10
opengl10
protobuf10
data-science10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
taochenshh/easyrl
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
A collection of reinforcement learning algorithms.
Contributions:1 release, 125 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
reinforcement-learning-algorithmsreinforcement-learningneural-networksdeep-reinforcement-learningmachine-learning
Improbable-AI/airobot
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
A python library for robot learning - An extension to PyRobot
Contributions:6 reviews, 132 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 3 months
python-libraryroboticspythonwebotspyrobot
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