Tim Besard

Tim Besard is a software engineer at JuliaHub, where he leads GPU support and development for the Julia programming language. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science engineering from Ghent University, Belgium, and has been a key contributor to Julia's GPU ecosystem since 2014. Tim maintains several foundational GPU packages, including CUDA.jl, GPUArrays.jl, GPUCompiler.jl, and LLVM.jl, which together form the backbone of GPU computing in Julia.

Posts by Tim Besard

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Developer Tools & Techniques Apr 30, 2026

Automating GPU Kernel Translation with AI Agents: cuTile Python to cuTile.jl

NVIDIA CUDA Tile (cuTile) is a tile-based programming model that enables developers to write GPU kernels in terms of tile-level operations—loads, stores, and... 9 MIN READ

Developer Tools & Techniques Mar 03, 2026

cuTile.jl Brings NVIDIA CUDA Tile-Based Programming to Julia

NVIDIA CUDA Tile is one of the most significant additions to NVIDIA CUDA programming and unlocks automatic access to tensor cores and other specialized... 5 MIN READ

Simulation / Modeling / Design Oct 25, 2017

High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language

Julia is a high-level programming language for mathematical computing that is as easy to use as Python, but as fast as C. The language has been created with... 10 MIN READ