Koushik Bhattacharyya is working with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. as Member Technical Staff and also worked as a software developer in NVIDIA®. He did his M.Tech in Computer Science (Gold Medalist) from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and M.Sc in pure mathematics from Burdwan University. With more than ten years of experience in software development using a number of languages and platforms, Koushik's present area of interest includes parallel programming and machine learning.