Cliff Woolley is a senior developer technology engineer with NVIDIA. He received his master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2003, where he was among the earliest academic researchers to explore the use of GPUs for general purpose computing. Today he works with developers of high-performance computing applications to fine-tune their algorithms for the CUDA Platform, and he is one of the lead authors of developer documentation in the CUDA Toolkit for application tuning and best practices.