Jeff Pool is a Senior Architect at NVIDIA. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he completed his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Chapel Hill in 2012 and 2009 respectively, focusing on power-efficient graphics hardware. Since then, he’s been improving the power and performance of GPUs, researching neural network sparsity, and designing and building accelerators that exploit network sparsity to achieve practical speedups.