Arya Rafii

As of September 2025, I have graduated from the department of Computer Science at University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Maryam M. Dehnavi.

Thesis Work

STOICC : The Sparse Tile MOsaIC Compiler

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