David Kirk

Dr. Kirk was at NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) for over 20 years, and served in many roles, including Chief Scientist, Vice President of Architecture, and most recently, Fellow.

Dr. Kirk received the Distinguished Alumni award from Caltech in 2009. He was elected in 2006 to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his role in bringing high-performance graphics to personal computers. In 2002, he received the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his role in bringing high-performance computer graphics systems to the mass market. Dr. Kirk is the inventor of more than 60 patents and patent applications relating to graphics design and has published more than 50 articles on graphics technology. He also co-authored the popular textbook “Programming Massively Parallel Processors.”

Dr. Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Caltech, with a minor in Computation and Neural Systems.