Presenter

Kazem Cheshmi is an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at McMaster University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in domain-specific compiler design and parallel computing algorithms for sparse numerical methods. Kazem is a recipient of the George Michael fellowship, Wolfund fellowship 2019, Adobe fellowship 2018, the grand final award of the 2017 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) competitions, and CGO-SRC 2017. He received his M.A.Sc degree from the University of Tehran in 2013 in computer engineering. Before joining the University of Toronto, Kazem was a researcher at Rutgers University, US, Concordia University, Canada, and Rostock University, Germany.