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Born in 1978, Chris Lattner is an American software developer, best known as the main author of LLVM and related projects, such as the compiler Clang and the programming language Swift. As of 2016, he works at Apple Inc., as Director of the Developer Tools department, leading the Xcode, Instruments, and compiler teams.
In late 2000, Lattner joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign(UIUC) as a research assistant and M.Sc. student. While working with Vikram Adve, he designed and began implementing LLVM, an innovative infrastructure for optimizing compilers, which was the subject of his 2002 M.Sc. thesis. He completed his Ph.D. in 2005, researching new techniques for optimizing pointer-intensive programs and adding them to LLVM.