melihelibol

Senior Research Scientist in Programming Systems and Applications at NVIDIA. I work on making it easier to express scalable, high-performance programs with modern programming tools, and on where numerical optimization and machine learning can help. Ph.D., UC Berkeley; A.L.B., Harvard. Coauthored Ray (the distributed framework for AI, OSDI'18) and Legate Sparse (SC'23).

- Author of cuTile Rust: Safe, data-race-free GPU kernels in Rust. github.com/nvlabs/cutile-rs | arxiv.org/abs/2606.15991 | RustConf 2026 - scholar.google.com/citations?user=MvYTnPoAAAAJ