University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MS, PhD)
Known for
LLVM Clang Swift programming language Mojo programming language
Spouse
Tanya Lattner
Awards
ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (2010)
ACM Software System Award (2012)
Scientific career
Fields
Compilers Programming languages
Institutions
Modular AI
SiFive
Google
Tesla, Inc.
Apple Inc.
Thesis
Macroscopic Data Structure Analysis and Optimization(2005)
Doctoral advisor
Vikram Adve
Website
nondot.org/sabre/
Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American computer scientist, former Apple, Google, and Tesla employee[1] and co-founder of LLVM, Clang compiler, MLIR compiler infrastructure[2] and the Swift programming language. He worked as the President of Platform Engineering, SiFive[3][4][5] after two years at Google Brain.[6] Prior to that, he briefly served as Vice President of Autopilot Software[7] at Tesla, Inc. and worked at Apple Inc. as Senior Director of the Developer Tools department, leading the Xcode, Instruments, and compiler teams.[8][9][10]
^"Former Google and Tesla Engineer Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team". Bloomberg. January 27, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
^Lattner, Chris; Amini, Mehdi; Bondhugula, Uday; Cohen, Albert; Davis, Andy; Pienaar, Jacques; Riddle, River; Shpeisman, Tatiana; Vasilache, Nicolas; Zinenko, Oleksandr (2021), "MLIR: Scaling Compiler Infrastructure for Domain Specific Computation", 2021 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), IEEE, pp. 2–14, doi:10.1109/CGO51591.2021.9370308, ISBN 978-1-7281-8613-9, S2CID 232127418
^Lattner, Chris. "With SiFive, We Can Change the World". SiFive Blog. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
^"Former Google and Tesla Engineer Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team". businesswire.com. January 27, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2020.
^"Odd Lots: Can Open-Source Semiconductors Upend the Chip Industry? on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
^Etherington, Darrell (August 15, 2017). "Swift creator Chris Lattner joins Google Brain after Tesla Autopilot stint". techcrunch.com. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
^Novet, Jordan (June 20, 2017). "Tesla hires prominent A.I. researcher as Autopilot chief Lattner leaves". Cnbc.com. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
^"Award Winners Made Breakthroughs in Network Efficiency, Data Mining, Education, Game Theory, Programming, and Community Problem-Solving". ACM. April 9, 2013. Archived from the original on May 1, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
^Cite error: The named reference Resume was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
Engineer ChrisLattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team". Bloomberg. January 27, 2020. Retrieved September 29, 2022. Lattner, Chris; Amini, Mehdi;...
Lattner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ChrisLattner (born 1978), American software developer Johnny Lattner (1932–2016), American...
Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, under the direction of Vikram Adve and ChrisLattner. LLVM was originally developed as a research infrastructure to investigate...
Adve, along with ChrisLattner, designed and developed the LLVM compiler infrastructure project in 2001. Vikram Adve and ChrisLattner received the 2012...
Hugo Larochelle, Chris Olah, Salih Edneer, Benoit Steiner, Vincent Vanhoucke, Vijay Vasudevan, and Fernanda Viegas. ChrisLattner, who created Apple's...
Paramedics. Retrieved 9 February 2012. Lattner, Chris (3 June 2014). "ChrisLattner's Homepage". ChrisLattner. Retrieved 3 June 2014. The Swift language...
Qt4-preview-feedback (Mailing list). Archived from the original on October 4, 2011. Lattner, Chris (May 25, 2007). LLVM for OpenGL and other stuff (Slides). LLVM Developers'...
language, and a prominent name in stack machine microprocessor design. ChrisLattner, creator of Swift, Mojo and LLVM. Cleve Moler, creator of MATLAB. Dennis...
SoCs, automotive, and 5G applications. In January 2020, SiFive hired ChrisLattner, an American software engineer best known as the main author of LLVM...
Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow (Glasgow Haskell Compiler) 2010: ChrisLattner (LLVM) Recognizes an individual or individuals who has made a significant...
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) Dick Lathwell – codeveloped APL\360 ChrisLattner – main author of LLVM project Samuel J. Leffler – BSD, FlexFAX, LibTIFF...
Computing Research Center Vikram Adve, helped to create LLVM along with ChrisLattner, Former Interim Head of the Department of Computer Science Gul Agha...
Mayor of Spokane, Washington 2019- Joseph Ada, former Governor of Guam ChrisLattner, primary author of LLVM software compiler architecture and the Swift...
Bertot and Pierre Castéran 2012 LLVM Vikram S. Adve, Evan Cheng and ChrisLattner 2011 Eclipse John Wiegand, Dave Thomson, Gregory Adams, Philippe Mulet...
Grace Murray Hopper Award for the design and implementation of APL\360 ChrisLattner, designer of Swift, ACM SIGPLAN 2010 PL Software Award and the 2012...
on Software Freedom More Than Ever" (Eben Moglen), "LLVM and Clang" (ChrisLattner), "How kernel development goes wrong and why you should be a part of...
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