# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kunle-olukotun
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:53.418Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kunle-olukotun"
name: "Kunle Olukotun"
slug: "kunle-olukotun"
description: "Oyekunle Ayinde \"Kunle\" Olukotun is a British-born Yoruba Nigerian computer scientist who is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of the Stanford School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and the director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab. \nOlukotun is known as the “father of the multi-core processor”, and the leader of the Stanford Hydra Chip Multiprocessor research project. Olukotun's achievements include designing the first general-purpose multi-core CPU, innovating single-chip multiprocessor and multi-threaded processor design, and pioneering multicore CPUs and GPUs, transactional memory technology and domain-specific languages programming models. Olukotun's research interests include computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems, domain specific languages and high-level compilers."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KunleOlukotun-2018photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           44.39
  momentum:             4.280771278168807
  historical:           4.425992
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/20335"
sources:
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    title: "Kunle Olukotun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunle_Olukotun"
    title: "Kunle Olukotun"
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    title: "Кунле Олукотун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunde_Olukotun"
    title: "Tunde Olukotun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kunle_Olukotun"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6444849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump