Presenter

Leighton is an HPC Engineer at Cerebras Systems. He works with customers across industry and government to achieve record-shattering performance on Cerebras’s wafer-scale architecture, and leads development efforts for the Cerebras SDK for low-level system programming. He was part of a 2023 Gordon Bell Award finalist team for his work with Cerebras and KAUST on scaling the “Memory Wall” for multi-dimensional seismic processing with algebraic compression on Cerebras CS-2 systems. Before joining Cerebras, Leighton received his PhD in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan.