Arya Rafii

I'm a second year graduate student in the department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, supervised by Professor Maryam M. Dehnavi.

Research Interests

I'm mainly interested in parallel compute and HPC solutions through compiler and kernel optimizations.

Previously

I completed my bachelors at University of Toronto, double-majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. My experience in undergrad blossomed an interest in formal logic theory and systems, which later transformed into my current research interests.

I spent a year working at AMD Markham (formerly ATI) as the lead engineer on the HIP Blender project, where I wrote the backend for the Blender 3D software to use the HIP ROCm stack on AMD GPUs.

After graduation, I spent a year and a half in Vancouver, Canada where I worked at Amazon Ads. There, I was part of the Ads Data backend team, building a platform that would serve all data used for Amazon advertising worldwide.

Contact

You can contact me by email: rafii [at] cs [dot] toronto [dot] edu