Ville Timonen
Senior Staff Software Engineer at ICEYE
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolVille Timonen is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and researcher with a PhD in computer science who specializes in real-time computer graphics, mixed reality, and high-performance GPU computing. He blends high-level R&D and architecture with hands-on, performance-oriented implementation—often squeezing extra performance out of GPGPUs and innovating at the intersection of computer vision and graphics. Ville has led and scaled mixed reality teams, shipped world-first VST and dynamic foveation features at Varjo, and contributed GPU stress-test improvements (including double-precision and tensor-core work) to the open-source gpu-burn utility. A frequent speaker at SIGGRAPH, GDC and Eurographics, he pairs academic rigor with production delivery, evidenced by awards for his PhD work and multiple best-paper recognitions. Comfortable across hardware, firmware and software boundaries, he repeatedly solves problems from 6DoF stereo video to low-latency MR pipelines. Based in Finland, he remains an avid hobbyist coder and Unix aficionado who enjoys turning research prototypes into shipping products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer science, Master's Degree Computer science at University of Eastern FinlandDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer science at Åbo Akademi UniversityKuopion Lyseon lukio
English, Finnish
Github Skills (8)
cuda10
gpu-programming10
c-language10
cublas10
cprogramming-language10
performance-optimization10
tensorrt9
tensor9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
wilicc/gpu-burn
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
Multi-GPU CUDA stress test
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:36 reviews, 32 commits, 30 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ville primarily worked on improving the `gpu-burn` utility, a CUDA-based multi-GPU stress test. Their contributions focused on enhancing the core functionality of the stress test by adding features to support double-precision floating-point operations and incorporating the use of tensor cores. Significant changes included code restructuring, adding double-precision support and the ability to report GPU temperatures. The commits also included performance improvements and optimizing the compare kernel to reduce CPU load.
cudagpu-programminggpu-accelerationgpumulti-gpu
BabylonJS/Babylon.js
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.
Contributions:3 comments in 1 day
gameopen-gameenginebabylonjavascript
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