Nicolas Capens
About Nicolas Capens
Affiliations
- NVIDIA
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2024
Nicolas Capens is a Principal Engineer at NVIDIA working on GPU and CPU compiler stacks. He received his MSE in Computer Science from Ghent University, Belgium. Prior to joining NVIDIA he was the lead of the SwiftShader project, a Vulkan 1.3 compliant CPU-based graphics driver accelerated through JIT-compilation, SIMD operations, and multi-core processing. It is used as a fallback for the Chrome browser’s 3D web technologies and CI testing of numerous Google projects. At NVIDIA, Nicolas strives to democratize accelerated computing through simple but powerful programming constructs.
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