Mahesh Khadatare is a distinguished research expert and holds the position of senior CUDA math library engineer and team leader at NVIDIA. With an illustrious career spanning more than two decades, he leads initiatives aimed at improving features and optimizing performance in crucial libraries like Image and Signal Processing (NPP), CV-CUDA, and image codecs (nvJPEG/2000/nvTIFF). Mahesh's noteworthy contributions extend to the research community, where he's authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications.