Chris Lattner

Chris Lattner
Born
Christopher Arthur Lattner

1978 (age 45–46)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forLLVM
Clang
Swift programming language
Mojo programming language
SpouseTanya Lattner
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCompilers
Programming languages
Institutions
ThesisMacroscopic Data Structure Analysis and Optimization (2005)
Doctoral advisorVikram Adve
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Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American computer scientist and creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift programming language and the MLIR compiler infrastructure.[1]

After his PhD in computer science, Lattner worked at Apple for 12 years, eventually leading the Developer Tools team. Between 2017 and 2022, Lattner worked in various positions for Tesla, Google[2] and SiFive.[3] He is currently co-founder and CEO of Modular AI, a company building an artificial intelligence developer platform.[4]

  1. ^ Lattner, Chris; Amini, Mehdi; Bondhugula, Uday; Cohen, Albert; Davis, Andy; Pienaar, Jacques; Riddle, River; Shpeisman, Tatiana; Vasilache, Nicolas; Zinenko, Oleksandr (2021), "MLIR: Scaling Compiler Infrastructure for Domain Specific Computation", 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), IEEE, pp. 2–14, doi:10.1109/CGO51591.2021.9370308, ISBN 978-1-7281-8613-9, S2CID 232127418
  2. ^ Etherington, Darrell (August 15, 2017). "Swift creator Chris Lattner joins Google Brain after Tesla Autopilot stint". techcrunch.com. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  3. ^ "Former Google and Tesla Engineer Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team". Bloomberg. January 27, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  4. ^ Claburn, Thomas. "Modular reveals Mojo, Python superset with C-level speed". www.theregister.com. Retrieved June 20, 2023.

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