Stephen Jones is one of the architects of CUDA, working on defining the language, the platform, and the hardware that it runs on, to span the needs of parallel programming from high performance computing to artificial intelligence. Prior to his present position, he lead the Simulation & Analytics group at SpaceX, working on large-scale simulation of rocket engines. He has worked in diverse other industries, including networking, CAD/CAM, and scientific computing. He has been a part of CUDA since 2008.