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Matthew Johnson

Named author of JAX and co-author of the SysML 2018 paper on an early JAX; research scientist at Google

  • Research scientist (GitHub bio "research scientist @ Google Brain"), Google14

Matthew Johnson, listed as Matthew James Johnson, is one of the authors named in the JAX repository's citation entry. With Roy Frostig and Chris Leary, Johnson co-authored the SysML 2018 paper "Compiling machine learning programs via high-level tracing," which the JAX README identifies as describing a nascent version of JAX; the paper lists Johnson with Google Brain. Johnson also wrote JAX design documents published in its documentation, including the Omnistaging upgrade guide (2020), and co-authored the January 2023 design doc that proposed shard_map. Johnson's GitHub profile lists Google as their company.24561

Work

  • JAXOpen-source code

    Named in the "Citing JAX" author list; co-author of the SysML 2018 paper on an early version of JAX; author of the Omnistaging guide and a co-author of the shard_map design doc in the JAX documentation. The repository is released under the Apache License 2.0.24563

    Project page (external site: github.com)

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

  1. 1.
    mattjj (Matthew Johnson) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  2. 2.
    jax-ml/jax README ("Citing JAX" author list) (external site: github.com)

    jax-ml (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  3. 3.
    jax-ml/jax LICENSE (Apache License 2.0) (external site: github.com)

    jax-ml (GitHub repository) · License · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Omnistaging (JAX design note, September 2020) (external site: docs.jax.dev)

    JAX documentation · Documentation · published Sep 25, 2020 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    shmap (shard_map) for simple per-device code (JAX design doc, January 2023) (external site: docs.jax.dev)

    JAX documentation · Documentation · published Jan 2023 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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