Luis Ceze

Education Ceze attended the University of São Paulo, where he received his B. Eng. degree in 2000 and his M. Eng. degree in 2001. from the University of São Paulo.

After this, he pursued a doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Josep Torrellas. He received his Ph.D. in 2007 with a thesis titled Bulk Operation and Data Coloring for Multiprocessor Programmability.

Career

OctoAI In 2019, Ceze founded OctoML, a startup aimed at optimizing machine learning deployments. OctoML launched OctoAI, a generative AI product, in June 2023. The company itself changed its name to OctoAI by January 2024, with Ceze explaining that it was renamed to "eliminate potential confusion between our product and corporate name".

He stated that OctoAI had thousands of users in a January 2024 statement. In September 2024, The Information reported that Nvidia has considered an acquisition of OctoAI for $165 million. Nvidia went on to acquire OctoAI on September 25. In 2018, he joined Madrona Venture Group as a venture partner.

Awards

NSF Career Award (2009) Sloan Research Fellowship (2010) IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award (2013) Maurice Wilkes Award (2020) ACM Fellow (2022)