Nathan Zhang, Ph.D.
Principal Compiler Engineer
Experience
Principal Compiler Engineer
2024 - PresentSambaNova Systems
Leading the evolution of the CUDA-equivalent stack, including IR design, solver-based optimizations (Z3), and hardware-software co-design for next-generation architectures.
Graduate Student Researcher
2017 - 2024Stanford University
Pioneered Streaming Tensor Interfaces and the DAM simulator. Designed IR abstractions for dynamic parallelism (STeP) and fusion mechanisms (FuseFlow).
Student Researcher / SWE Intern
2016 - 2020Google
Accelerated lattice regression training via Cloud Dataflow and authored a pilot low-level C compiler for the Pixel Visual Core.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
2017 - 2024Stanford University
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2014 - 2017University of California, Berkeley