Mehdi Goli

Mehdi Goli is a Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI performance at Modular since October 2025, with extensive experience in AI kernel programming and GPGPU workloads. Previously, at Codeplay Software (September 2015 - September 2025), Mehdi served as a Software Architect focusing on optimizing AI compute kernels and libraries and led the implementation of the CUTLASS SYCL backend. Additional roles included Vice President of R&D, where Mehdi optimized libraries like oneDNN and oneMKL, and Senior Software Engineer, contributing to projects such as Eigen SYCL-backend and TensorFlow support. Prior experience as a Research Assistant at Robert Gordon University involved work on the ParaPhrase project, funded by the European Union's FP7 program. Mehdi holds a PhD in Distributed and Parallel Programming from Robert Gordon University, along with a Master's degree from The University of Edinburgh and a bachelor's and master's in Software Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University.