People

Luigi was a senior postdoc in SPO until 2017 when he left for a postdoc at Stanford; he is now an Assistant Professor at Lund University, Sweden.  Luigi played a central role in building our collaboration with the robot vision research community through the SLAMBench initiative.  Also arising from this was his Hypermapper tool for design space exploration.

Luke works at the interface between compilers, instruction sets and processor microarchitecture.

Philippos joined Imperial after completing an MPhil in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.  He is working in domain-specific accelerator architecture for big data analytics.  He is affiliated with SPO; his first supervisor is Prof Wayne Luk.

Prof Saeedi continues to collaborate daily on domain-specific optimisation projects in computer vision and SLAM.  He worked as a senior postdoc at Imperial before joining the faculty at Ryerson University, Toronto where he focuses on robotics, SLAM, focal-plane sensor-processor arrays (FPSP), and deep learning.

Edward works on domain-specific program optimisation and storage layout optimisation, particularly for convolutions and tensor contractions.

TJ Sun joined SPO in October 2015 with an MSc in Computer Science and extensive software engineering experience in the finance industry.  He has been a major contributor to vectorisation and GPU acceleration in the Firedrake project.

Matthew Taylor joined SPO in October 2016, with a MSci in Physics and extensive sofwtare engineering experience in the finance industry.  He is working on software abstractions for code generation and their applications in domain-specific optimisations.

Sophia is working on the Firedrake project.  She came to Imperial in 2018 after completing a Double Degree M.Sc. in Technomathematics/Mathematics at the University of Applied Sci. Aachen and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  She is working on domain-specific optimisations in a DSL for performing linear algebra operations on finite element tensors.  She is affiliated with SPO; her first supervisor is Dr David Ham in Imperial’s Maths Department.