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Michael Kinsner

October 5, 2021

Mike Kinsner is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation developing languages and parallel programming models for a variety of compute architectures. He is one of the architects of Data Parallel C++. He started his career at Altera, working on high level synthesis for field programmable gate arrays, and still contributes to spatial programming models and compilers. Mike is an Intel representative within The Khronos Group standards organization, where he works on the SYCL and OpenCL open industry standards for parallel programming. Mike holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from McMaster University, and recently co-authored the industry’s first book on SYCL and Data Parallel C++.