Gennady Pekhimenko

Dr. Gennady Pekhimenko is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and cross-appointed to the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Toronto. He leads the EcoSystem research group and serves as CEO/Co-Founder of CentML, with affiliations at CIFAR and Vector Institute.

• PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University (2016)

His research spans computer architecture, systems optimization, and applied machine learning, with a focus on memory hierarchy efficiency, hardware acceleration, and compiler design. Recent work emphasizes large language model training, GPU virtualization, and processing-in-memory systems.

Key article trends include: 1) Memory optimization for transformers and sparse models (2024-2025), 2) GPU resource management (2022-2024), 3) Prompt programming languages (2025), and 4) Deep learning compilation frameworks (2021-2023).

• Major Awards: NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship, Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, ISCA Hall of Fame, AWS/Google/VMware research grants
• Key Collaborations: Onur Mutlu (CMU), Todd Mowry (CMU), Vector Institute researchers