Ayal Zaks joined the Intel OpenCL team in Haifa late 2011, where he works on compilers for Intel CPUs and Xeon Phi. Prior to that Ayal spent 15 years at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory where he managed its Compiler Technologies group and worked on compiler optimizations. Ayal is a member of the HiPEAC network of excellence. He received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and operations research from Tel Aviv University, and is a senior adjunct lecturer at the Technion.