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Nikita Lazarev is Co-Founder and CTO of Netpreme, an AI infrastructure startup focused on addressing memory wall constraints. His prior work covered networking hardware, low latency systems, and computer architecture.
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Zhizhen ZhongExecutive Officer, Director
Experience
- NetpremeCo-Founder and CTOcurrent2025 — present
- GooglePHD Researcher2023 — 2024New York City Metropolitan Area
- MicrosoftPHD Researcher2021 — 2023Redmond, Washington, United States
- MicrosoftResearch Intern2018Greater Cambridge Area
- MicrosoftResearch Intern2017 — 2018Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Samsung ElectronicsR&D Software Engineer2014 — 2016Moscow, Moscow City, Russia
Skills & more
Software Development6Research3Digital electronicsFPGA programming1Computer ArchitectureSystemVerilogMachine LearningParallel ComputingEmbedded Systems9C2C++2Linux2
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Device DriversGitBashJavaComputer HardwareVHDLOperating SystemsVerilogPythonAndroid internalSystem Software DevelopmentSoC developmentLanguages English · French · Russian
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- Who is Nikita Lazarev?
- Nikita Lazarev is Co-Founder and CTO of Netpreme, an AI infrastructure startup focused on addressing memory wall constraints. His prior work covered networking hardware, low latency systems, and computer architecture.
- Where does Nikita Lazarev work?
- Nikita Lazarev is Founder of Netpreme.
- What companies did Nikita Lazarev found?
- Nikita Lazarev founded Netpreme.
- Where did Nikita Lazarev go to school?
- Nikita Lazarev studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); EPFL (Master's degree, Computer Science); Bauman Moscow State Technical University (Undergraduate, Electrical and Electronics Engineering).
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