Mark Christopher Jeffrey

Mark Jeffrey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in the of Department Electrical and Computer Engineering and cross appointed to the Department of Computer Science. He earned the PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020), and the MASc (2011) and BASc (2009) degrees from the University of Toronto. Broadly, his research interests are in the areas of computer architecture and computer systems, with an emphasis on scaling conventionally hard-to-parallelize applications through new programming models, compilers, multicore architectures, and accelerators. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, he was a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research, working to improve systems for distributed training in machine learning, and has also worked in engineering at Google, Epson, and a Y-combinator startup called AeroFS. His work has been recognized with an IEEE Micro Top Picks award and honourable mention, a Facebook Fellowship, an NSERC PGS-D, and the George M. Sprowls second place award for an outstanding PhD thesis in computer science.