Vivek Kumar works in the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC). He received his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 2014. His doctoral research focused on using managed runtime techniques to improve the performance and productivity of parallel programming on multicore architectures. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked for nearly six years in research and development positions within the HPC sector at C-DAC R&D and IBM Systems and Technology Labs. After completing his doctorate, he spent nearly three years as a Research Scientist at Rice University. His current research focuses on designing runtime techniques to achieve high performance and energy efficiency on multicore processors, GPUs, and SoCs.