Michalis Papadimitriou

Michalis Papadimitriou is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and a Staff Software Engineer on the TornadoVM team. His core expertise includes open-source software development, hardware abstractions for high-level programming languages, compiler optimizations for GPU computing, and enabling large language model (LLM) inference on GPUs for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Michalis is focused on advancing GPU acceleration for machine learning workloads on the JVM through the TornadoVM framework and actively maintains the GPULlama3.java project.
Before joining the University of Manchester, he worked on a range of software stacks at Huawei Technologies and contributed to the open-source machine learning compiler Apache TVM, while working for OctoAI (formerly OctoML), which was later acquired by Nvidia.