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date = 2019-03-13T00:00:00
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Carl Pearson is currently a PhD candidate in the Electrical Computer and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
He is a member of the [IMPACT Research Group](http://impact.crhc.illinois.edu/) and advised by Professor Wen-Mei Hwu where he works on high performance computing, GPU computing, compilers, and high-level programming languages and frameworks, with an emphasis on multi-GPU graph algorithms.
He also enjoys teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in GPU programming courses.


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