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Vice President & General Managerat NVIDIA
Ian Buck's profile covers his NVIDIA career, CUDA invention, GPU computing expertise, AI, and HPC leadership.
Ian Buck is Vice President and General Manager at NVIDIA, leading the company's Hyperscale and HPC Computing business, which includes NVIDIA data center GPU products for AI and high-performance computing. He is known for inventing CUDA, a GPU computing platform that became a widely adopted standard for GPU computing. His technical background spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, simulation, and HPC. At NVIDIA, Buck has also built and led engineering teams across numerical libraries, compilers, system software, development environments, profilers, debuggers, APIs, quality assurance, build and release systems, and AI frameworks.
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Full Name |
Ian Buck |
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Current Position |
VP / General Manager, Hyperscale and HPC |
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Current Company |
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Location |
Santa Clara, California, United States |
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Previous Role |
Systems Engineer / Director, NVIDIA |
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Previous Company |
SGI |
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Education |
Stanford University; Princeton University |
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Highest Degree |
Ph.D. in Computer Science |
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Doctoral Thesis |
Stream Computing on Graphics Hardware |
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Doctoral Advisor |
Pat Hanrahan |
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Undergraduate Degree |
BSE in Computer Science |
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Undergraduate Thesis Advisor |
Adam Finkelstein |
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Academic Distinction |
Summa cum laude |
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Notable Invention |
CUDA |
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Other GPU Computing Work |
Inventor of the Brook GPU Streaming language |
Buck began his professional career as a Graphics Engineer at SGI before pursuing doctoral research in computer science at Stanford University. He joined NVIDIA in 2004 as a Systems Engineer and later moved into engineering leadership roles. His work at NVIDIA included the development of CUDA and software infrastructure supporting GPU computing and the company's Tesla supercomputing business. Since 2013, he has served as VP and General Manager, taking responsibility for NVIDIA's data center GPU product lines serving cloud and HPC markets.
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1995–1999 |
BSE in Computer Science, Princeton University: Completed his undergraduate degree in computer science, graduating summa cum laude. |
1997–1998 |
Graphics Engineer, SGI: Worked as a graphics engineer at SGI in Mountain View, California. |
1999–2005 |
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University: Completed doctoral studies with a thesis titled Stream Computing on Graphics Hardware. His research included the Brook GPU Streaming language. |
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2004–2013 |
Systems Engineer / Director, NVIDIA: Joined NVIDIA and worked across engineering responsibilities related to GPU computing and software. His work included building engineering capabilities around CUDA and software tools, drivers, and libraries for GPU computing. |
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2004 |
CUDA and GPU Computing: Became associated with the development of CUDA and the engineering of software infrastructure supporting NVIDIA's GPU computing efforts. |
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2005 |
GPU Machine Learning Research: Published research on using GPUs for machine learning algorithms, including work involving neural networks. |
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2013–Present |
VP / General Manager, NVIDIA: Leads NVIDIA's Hyperscale and HPC Computing business, with responsibility for data center GPU product lines serving cloud and high-performance computing markets. |
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