David J. Kuck is an Intel Fellow, Enterprise Platforms Group and Director, KAI Software Lab, Software and Solutions Group. KAI is a leading provider of performance-oriented compilers and programming tools used in the development of multithreaded applications.

Kuck founded KAI in 1979 and was Chairman of the Board through 2000. Previously, he was a faculty member of the Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also served as director of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development.

Kuck holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from Northwestern University. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Kuck holds two patents and has published over 100 papers.