Stephen W. Keckler

Stephen William Keckler is an American computer scientist and the current Vice President of Architecture Research at Nvidia.^[1]

Stephen Keckler
Alma mater	Stanford University (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)
Awards	ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award for Engineering NSF CAREER Award Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	UT Austin NVIDIA
Thesis	Fast thread communication and synchronization mechanisms for a scalable single chip multiprocessor (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Bill Dally

Keckler received a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1990 and an MS and PhD in computer science from MIT in 1992 and 1998, respectively. He then joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served from 1998 to 2012.^[2] He joined NVIDIA in 2009.^[3] In 2003, he received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in leading the TRIPS architecture research group.^[4] He became an ACM Senior Member in 2006 and an ACM Fellow in 2011.