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Ronan Keryell

August 4, 2021

Ronan Keryell is principal software engineer at Xilinx Research Labs. He works on SYCL C++-based programming models for heterogeneous system like FPGA and CGRA. He is the specification editor of the SYCL standard, member of the SYCL, SPIR & OpenCL standard committees from Khronos Group & ISO C++ committee. Ronan Keryell received his MSc in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Computer Science in 1992 from École Normale Supérieure of Paris & University of Paris Sud (France), on the design of a massively parallel RISC-based VLIW-SIMD graphics computer and its programming environment. He was co-founder of 3 start-ups, mainly in high-performance computing, was the technical lead of the Par4All automatic parallelizer at SILKAN, targeting OpenMP, CUDA & OpenCL from sequential C & Fortran. Before joining Xilinx, he worked at AMD on programming models for GPU.