Josef Spjut is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA working on esports-related research topics, such as human-computer performance, latency, and frame rate. His research contributed to the Ray Tracing Core hardware in NVIDIA GPUs since Turing and the NVIDIA Reflex esports platform launched alongside Ampere. Previously he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the department of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Utah and a B.S. from University of California, Riverside, both in Computer Engineering.