Paul VanKoughnett

Paul VanKoughnett is a research scientist at Colfax International. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Northwestern University in 2018 and conducted research in algebraic topology at Purdue and Texas A&M. At Colfax, he works on performance optimization for GEMM and related problems on NVIDIA GPUs. He lives in Austin, TX, and when not staring at SASS, he likes to bike and play guitar.
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Posts by Paul VanKoughnett

Models / Libraries / Frameworks Jul 16, 2025

CUTLASS 3.x: Orthogonal, Reusable, and Composable Abstractions for GEMM Kernel Design

GEMM optimization on GPUs is a modular problem. Performant implementations need to specify hyperparameters such as tile shapes, math and copy instructions, and... 12 MIN READ