Nathaniel Pinckney

Nate Pinckney received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2015. He is currently a senior research scientist at NVIDIA in Austin, Texas. His work spans high-level synthesis methodologies, AI accelerators, low-power VLSI design, and cryptography. More recently, his research has focused on evaluating large language models and AI agents, including co-creating the VerilogEval and Comprehensive Verilog Design Problems (CVDP) benchmarks, and is the founding chair of Si2’s LLM Benchmarking Coalition.