Presenter

Stephen Neuendorffer is a Fellow at AMD in the Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group working on early development of compilation for compute acceleration, focused on leveraging LLVM and MLIR. Previously, he was product architect of Xilinx Vivado HLS, co-authored a widely used textbook on HLS design for FPGAs, and worked with customers on a wide variety of applications, including video encoders, computer vision, wireless systems, and networking systems. He received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998. He graduated with University Honors, Departmental Honors in Electrical Engineering, and was named the Outstanding Graduate in the Department of Computer Science. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, after being one of the key architects of Ptolemy II.