Amit Sabne

I am a staff software engineer and a technical lead manager at Google. I work on a high performance compiler for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), named XLA.

Before, I was a software engineer at Microsoft, working in the Visual C++ compiler team. I researched and designed novel optimization techniques to improve program performance while lowering binary size and compilation time.

Earlier, I earned a PhD in Computer Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue. I worked with Rudolf Eigenmann in the Paramount Lab. My PhD research area was High Performance Computing, with a focus on heterogeneous computing systems. My dissertation proposed and developed efficient programming models for accelerators. It also provided compiler and runtime support for these models and formulated fast autotuning mechanisms for accelerator programs.

While in grad school, I did several internships. I interned with the Integrated Systems Group of NEC Labs, at Future Technologies Group, Oak Ridge National Labs, at nVIDIA in the CUDA Compiler team, and at the Modems Systems Engineering team at Qualcomm.

Before joining Purdue, I worked at BHEL, Industrial Systems Group (ISG) in the Drives and Automation Lab. Even before that, I received a B. Eng. (Hons.) in Electronics and Instrumentation from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)-Pilani, India. I interned with Texas Instruments and Bharat Forge during this time.