Jiri Kraus is a senior developer in NVIDIA's European Developer Technology team. As a consultant for GPU HPC applications at the NVIDIA Julich Applications Lab and the Power Acceleration and Design Center (PADC), Jiri collaborates with developers and scientists at the Julich Supercomputing Centre and the Forschungszentrum Julich. Before joining NVIDIA, he worked on the parallelization and optimization of scientific and technical applications for clusters of multicore CPUs and GPUs at Fraunhofer SCAI in St. Augustin. He holds a diploma in mathematics from the University of Cologne, Germany.