1. Kunle Olukotun's achievements include designing the first general-purpose multi-core CPU, innovating single-chip multiprocessor and multi-threaded processor design, and pioneering multicore CPUs and GPUs, transactional memory technology and domain-specific languages programming models.
Kunle Olukotun did his undergraduate studies at Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Kunle Olukotun earned an MS and PhD from University of Michigan, in Computer Science and Engineering.
The Afara multicore processor Niagara, developed by Kunle Olukotun was acquired by Sun.
Kunle Olukotun now leads the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, which focuses on making heterogeneous parallel computing easy to use, and he is a member of the Data Analytics for What's Next Lab, which is developing infrastructure for usable machine learning.
Kunle Olukotun's research focus is in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems, domain specific languages, and high-level compilers.
Kunle Olukotun leads the Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor research project, revolutionizing computing by bringing multi-core technology to consumers and high-end computing systems.
In 2008, Kunle Olukotun returned to Stanford, and founded the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory at Stanford after gathering US$6 million in funding from several computer-industry corporations.
Kunle Olukotun is a member of the board of advisors of UDC, a Nigerian venture capital firm.
Kunle Olukotun was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2006 for his "contributions to multiprocessors on a chip and multi threaded processor design".
Kunle Olukotun has used several words from his Yoruba heritage in his research.
Kunle Olukotun directs the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab which seeks to proliferate the use of parallelism in all application areas.
Kunle Olukotun is a member of the Data Analytics for What's Next Lab.
Kunle Olukotun has published more than 150 scientific papers and wrote two textbooks.