Academic

Kunle Olukotun

British-born Nigerian computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Oyekunle Ayinde "Kunle" Olukotun is a British-born Yoruba Nigerian computer scientist who is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of the Stanford School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab. Olukotun is known as the “father of the multi-core processor”, and the leader of the Stanford Hydra Chip Multiprocessor research project. Olukotun's achievements include