👋 Hi there — I'm Muhammad Awad

I'm a Senior Member of Technical Staff at AMD Research, where I design, architect, and tech-lead system-level software, libraries, and runtimes for next-generation computing. I lead cross-organizational teams and coordinate initiatives across ML frameworks, kernel engineering, distributed systems, and research teams.

Before joining AMD, I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis, advised by John Owens. My research there focused on building dynamic concurrent data structures on GPUs, such as B-trees, dynamic graphs, multiversioned trees, and high-performance hash tables.

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💼 Current Focus @ AMD

At AMD, I lead and contribute to projects spanning:

• AI-powered tools for GPU performance and productivity
• Libraries and runtimes for heterogeneous and distributed systems
• Programming models for AMD GPUs and Ryzen™ AI NPUs

Notable projects:

• 🔁 Iris: Designed and architected a Triton-based multi-GPU programming framework from scratch. Tech-leading a cross-organizational team, demonstrated significant speedups in production LLM workloads.
• 🧠 IntelliKit: Created and architected an open-source LLM-ready profiling toolkit for AMD CPUs and GPUs. Serving as tooling lead for AMD's company-wide ML for performance engineering initiative.
• 🧠 IntelliPerf: Created and led development of an LLM-powered autonomous GPU performance engineering framework that profiles, diagnoses, and optimizes kernels end-to-end.
• ⚙️ IRON: Contributor to IRON, a low-level development stack for AMD Ryzen™ AI NPUs with Python APIs and MLIR compiler passes.

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🔬 Academic Research

I'm broadly interested in parallel computing, concurrent data structures, performance analysis, and low-level GPU programming. As a Ph.D. student, I designed and built several GPU-native data structures:

• 🌳 Dynamic GPU B-Tree
• ⌛ Multiversion GPU B-Tree
• 🕸 Dynamic graph data structure (integrated into Gunrock)
• 🧹 Epoch-based memory reclamation for safe memory reuse on GPUs
• #️⃣ Static GPU hash tables — including cuckoo, Po2, and iceberg hashing
• 👨‍💻 PTX-level bucketed cuckoo hash set — written in PTX and JIT-compiled

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📫 Connect

• ✉️ Email: muhaawad at amd dot com
• 🌐 Website
• 📄 CV
• 🧑‍💼 LinkedIn
• 📚 Google Scholar

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