Fredrik Kjolstad is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. He works on topics in compilers and programming models, with an emphasis on fast compilation and compilers for sparse computing problems where we need to separate the algorithms from data representation. He has received the MIT EECS First Place George M. Sprowls PhD Thesis Award in Computer Science, the NSF CAREER Award, the Rosing Award, an Adobe Fellowship, a Google Research Scholarship, and best paper awards at EuroMPI 2013 and OOPSLA 2017 and 2021.