Oskar Mencer

Since 2003 Oskar Mencer was the founder and CEO of Maxeler Technologies, a Deterministic Dataflow solutions company acquired by Groq in 2022 whose IP was licensed by NVidia in December 2025.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Dr Mencer earned a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion, and MS and PhD degrees in Computer Systems from Stanford University. His early career included research roles at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, Hitachi Central Research Laboratories, and the Systems Research Center of DIGITAL in Palo Alto.

In 2013 Maxeler launched OpenSPL, an open standard for spatial programming, now called deterministic Dataflow. Maxeler systems have been deployed in mission critical environments worldwide, from JP Morgan during the credit crisis in 2009, to Chevron for Seismic Imaging, for Steel pricing in Europe and in several government institutions. The Maxeler University Program has led to over 1000 publications on scholar.google.com from universities such as Stanford, Imperial, U of Tokyo, Tsinghua U and many others. He received multiple awards including an Imperial College Research Excellence Award in 2007 and a Golden Arrow from the Vienna Congress in 2012. Dr Mencer is a Member of Academia Europaea and has served on its board. He now lives on Palm Jumeirah and advises companies around the world.