Haoxing (Mark) Ren is the Director of Design Automation Research at Nvidia. His research interest is in AI for chip design and GPU-acceleration EDA. He worked at IBM EDA Lab from 2000 to 2006 where he was the key developer of placement tools. He joined IBM Research DA group in 2007 where he led the development of logic ECO synthesis tools and high-level synthesis tools. Prior to joining NVIDIA Research in May 2016, he was a technical executive at PowerCore, a startup developing server-class CPUs. Mark earned his Ph.D.

Nikola Nedovic joined NVIDIA Research in 2016. He received a Dipl.Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Davis, in 2003. Before joining NVIDIA, he was a senior researcher and research manager at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, where he worked on circuits and systems for electrical and optical communications, and energy-efficient VLSI implementations of machine learning computing systems.

Dan Lustig joined NVIDIA Research in December 2015.  He works in the area of computer architecture, with a particular focus on system architecture, memory system design, and memory consistency models.  His PhD thesis focused on specifying and verifying microarchitectural enforcement of memory models.

Dan received his PhD from Princeton in November 2015 under the supervision of Margaret Martonosi.  He received his MA from Princeton in 2011 and his BSE from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.  He also received an Intel PhD Fellowship in 2013.

Brian Zimmer joined the Circuits Research Group in NVIDIA Research in 2015.  His research interests are in energy-efficient digital design, with an emphasis on low-voltage SRAM design and variation tolerance.

Walker Turner joined the Circuits Research Group at NVIDIA in August 2015.