Chris Lattner
American software engineer (born 1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American computer scientist and creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift programming language and the MLIR compiler infrastructure.[1]
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Born | Christopher Arthur Lattner 1978 (age 45ā46) |
Nationality | American |
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Known for | LLVM Clang Swift programming language Mojo programming language |
Spouse | Tanya Lattner |
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Fields | Compilers Programming languages |
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Thesis | Macroscopic Data Structure Analysis and Optimization (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Vikram Adve |
Website | nondot |
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After his PhD in computer science, Lattner worked at Apple for 12 years, eventually leading the Developer Tools team. Between 2017 and 2022, Lattner worked in various positions for Tesla, Google[2] and SiFive.[3] He is currently co-founder and CEO of Modular AI, a company building an Artificial Intelligence developer platform.[4]