Author

Alastair Murray is the VP of Product Engineering at Codeplay Software Ltd. In this role he oversees various compiler and SYCL orientated projects, working to broaden hardware support across the SYCL ecosystem through both backend target support and extensions to open standards. He is also co-chair of the Hardware Abstraction Special Interest Group in the newly formed UXL Foundation and the oneAPI Community Forum before it; and he is involved in OpenCL where he is a co-editor of the specification and was heavily involved in writing the 3.0 version. Prior to joining Codeplay he did his PhD in compiler design at the University of Edinburgh, and was a post-doctoral researcher at Virginia Tech’s System Software Research Group working on heterogeneous compilers and operating systems.