He was among the two hundred and sixty one (261) new members announced by the Academy President David W. Oxtoby and Chair of the Board of Directors Nancy C. Andrews to be elected to the academy in 2022.
Kunle as he is fondly called is a Cadence Design Systems Professor of the Stanford School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University.
He was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his outstanding work in his field of his study which is computer science. He is the brain behind the development of one of the first chip multiprocessors with support for thread-level speculation (TLS). His research interests focus on parallel programming, computer architecture and scalable parallel systems.
Olukotun, the Director of Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, which works to facilitate the use of parallelism in all applications area, was among the nine (9) faculty members at Stanford University that were elected into the academy. Their academy memberships were effected by nomination by members and follow by election processes.
Professor Oyekunle Olukotun is:
- Chief Technologist and Co-founder SambaNova Systems
- Cadence Design Professor, Stanford University
- Chief Scientist and Co-founder Migo and was
- Chief Scientist and Co-founder Afara WebSystems