Melih Elibol

Melih Elibol is a senior research scientist in programming systems and applications research at NVIDIA. His research aims to improve the ease of expressing scalable high performance programs using modern programming tools, as well as considering how numerical optimization and machine learning may be applied toward addressing emerging challenges in this space. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley and A.L.B. at Harvard University.
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Posts by Melih Elibol

Developer Tools & Techniques

Translating CUDA Tile Operations from Python to Rust Using Agentic AI

cuTile Rust (cutile-rs) is a tile-based system for safe, idiomatic GPU kernel authoring in the Rust programming language. Extending the Rust ownership model to... 19 MIN READ
Developer Tools & Techniques

Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels

In September 2026, NVIDIA announced it is leaning into native GPU programming in Rust. CUDA C++ and CUDA Python are mature, enterprise-grade toolchains, and... 13 MIN READ