Dr. Lawrence Spracklen is a senior software engineer at Nvidia (Santa Clara, California), where he works on performance analysis, optimization and compiler design, related to next-generation GPUs.
Prior to joining Nvidia, Lawrence was a senior staff engineer in the UltraSPARC
Architecture Group at Sun Microsystems,
where he focussed on the development of next-generation UltraSPARC
processors.
Prior to joining the architecture group, Dr.
Spracklen was a research staff member in the Compilers, Libraries and
Performance Technologies group at Sun Microsystems, where he focussed
on performance analysis and optimization.
Before moving to the USA in
2000, Dr. Spracklen worked as a software consultant for the United
Nations and Sun UK.
Dr. Spracklen received a Ph.D. in
Electronic Engineering (thesis
can be found here) from the University of Aberdeen (2001) and a B.Sc. in
Computational Physics from the University of York (1995).
