Tao B. Schardl is a Research Scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a member of the Supertech research group, working with Professor Charles Leiserson. His research draws from both algorithms and systems to develop technologies that support principled, scientific approaches to writing fast code. Towards this goal, his previous research has spanned parallel programming models, theories of software performance, diagnostic tools, compiler technology, and applications. His work on the Tapir/LLVM compiler received the best paper award at the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming in 2017. Dr. Schardl received his S.B. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2009, his M.Eng. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2010, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT in 2016.