Grigori Fursin


Grigori Fursin is a British computer scientist and the president of the non-profit CTuning foundation. His research group created open-source machine learning based self-optimizing compiler, MILEPOST GCC, considered to be the first in the world. At the end of the MILEPOST project he established cTuning foundation to crowdsource program optimisation and machine learning across diverse devices provided by volunteers. His foundation also developed Collective Knowledge Framework to support open research. Since 2015 Fursin leads at several ACM and IEEE computer systems conferences. He is also a founding member of the ACM taskforce on Data, Software, and Reproducibility in Publication.

Education

Fursin received a Master of Science degree in physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1999.
He completed his PhD in computer science at the University of Edinburgh in 2005.
While in Edinburgh, he worked on foundations of practical program autotuning and performance prediction.

Notable projects