Dr Oskar Mencer
Oskar Mencer is the founder and CEO of Maxeler Technologies, a dataflow-computing company acquired by Groq in 2022 and now run as a project subsidiary. He is also a senior lecturer in the Computing Department at Imperial College London and has served as a consulting/visiting professor in Stanford University’s Geophysics Department. His research focuses on acceleration of computations, number representation, and the development of Multiscale Dataflow Computing.
Founder and Ceo of Maxeler Technologies
Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London and Consulting Professor at Stanford University
Born in Vienna, Austria, Dr Mencer earned a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion, and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical/Computer Engineering from Stanford University. His early career included research roles at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, Hitachi Central Research Laboratories in Kokubunji (as a HIVIPS scholar), and the Systems Research Center of DIGITAL in Palo Alto.
In 2013 he launched OpenSPL, an open standard for spatial programming. Maxeler systems have been deployed in UK and Chinese government laboratories, and he was invited to a UK government committee on future HPC software investment. He has delivered keynotes internationally, served on program committees, and received multiple awards including an Imperial College Research Excellence Award (2007). Dr Mencer is a Member of Academia Europaea and has served on its board, and he currently holds advisor roles with MetaAll.AI and DeepPhenome Inc. He now lives on Palm Jumeirah.