Christos Kartsaklis

Christos Kartsaklis is an accomplished Principal Compiler Engineer at Samsung Electronics since July 2019, leading R&D on GPU (Xclipse) production compilers and optimizing performance for benchmark and game shaders. Prior experience includes serving as a Senior Compiler Engineer at Apple, where Christos focused on mid/backend development for the Apple Neural Engine production compiler, and as a Staff Graphics Compiler Engineer at Qualcomm, specializing in LLVM-based Adreno GPU production. Earlier roles encompass significant contributions to HPC optimization at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where Christos managed a $700k project and developed innovative tools and systems. Christos holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Manchester, an MSc in High Performance Computing from The University of Edinburgh, and a BSc in Computing Science from the University of Aberdeen.