Peter Hawkins is one of the authors named in the JAX repository's citation entry. The JAX README describes JAX as a Python library for accelerator-oriented array computation and program transformation, released under the Apache License 2.0. Hawkins's GitHub profile lists Google as their company and sums up their work as "JAX @ Google."123
At a glance
- Current role
- JAX (GitHub bio "JAX @ Google")
- Company
- Sector
- Company
- Education
- Stanford
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 8
- Profile reviewed
Open-source work
Hawkins is one of the twelve authors, listed alphabetically, in the citation entry that the JAX README asks users to cite, alongside James Bradbury, Roy Frostig, Matthew James Johnson, Dougal Maclaurin and others. Hawkins's commits in the JAX repository date back at least to November 2018, and Hawkins's GitHub profile summarizes the work as JAX at Google.143
Much of Hawkins's recent JAX work concerns building and packaging the library. Pull requests from September and October 2026 include making the build script detect free-threaded Python builds, and raising the minimum x86-64 CPU requirement to Intel Haswell. Hawkins has also committed to ml_dtypes, a stand-alone implementation of NumPy dtype extensions used in machine learning such as bfloat16 and float8 formats.5678
Work and contributions
Timeline
- Committed a source sync to the JAX repository.4
- Committed build changes to the ml_dtypes repository, including adding an Eigen submodule.8
- Opened a JAX pull request raising the minimum x86-64 CPU requirement to Intel Haswell.6
- Opened a JAX pull request making the build script detect free-threaded Python builds.5
Where they work
- Google 121 people in the wiki
Related people
- Alex SmolaAlso at Google
- Fabian PedregosaAlso at Google
- Matthew JohnsonAlso at Google
- Łukasz KaiserAlso at Google
- Alexei BaevskiAlso at Google
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References
8 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026
- jax-ml/jax README ("Citing JAX" author list)
- jax-ml/jax LICENSE (Apache License 2.0)
- hawkinsp (Peter Hawkins) on GitHub
- jax-ml/jax commit 065bb0b (source sync, November 2018)
- jax-ml/jax pull request #41056: Make build.py autodetect free threaded builds
- jax-ml/jax pull request #40885: Increase the minimum x86-64 CPU requirement to Intel Haswell
- jax-ml/ml_dtypes README
- jax-ml/ml_dtypes commit a95efe0 (Add Eigen submodule)