Peter Mattson founded and is President of MLCommons, the engineering consortium behind the MLPerf and AILuminate benchmarks, and founded and was General Chair of the MLPerf consortium that preceded it. Mattson is a senior staff engineer at Google whose research focuses on understanding machine learning models and data through quantitative metrics.1
At a glance
- Current roles
- Founder, President and board member +1 more
- Sector
- Nonprofit
- Education
- Stanford, UW
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 5
- Profile reviewed
Career
Before MLCommons, Mattson founded the Programming Systems and Applications Group at NVIDIA Research, was vice president of software infrastructure at Stream Processors Inc., and was a managing engineer at Reservoir Labs.1
Mattson founded the MLPerf consortium and served as its General Chair, then founded MLCommons, which Mattson leads as President while working as a senior staff engineer at Google.1
Benchmarks
Mattson is first author of the 2019 MLPerf Training Benchmark paper, which set out rules and methods for measuring machine learning training performance across systems, and a co-author of the companion MLPerf Inference Benchmark paper.23
Mattson also co-authored MLCommons' work on AI safety evaluation: the v0.5 AI Safety Benchmark in April 2024 and AILuminate v1.0, a benchmark of AI risk and reliability, in February 2025.45
Work and contributions
MLPerf Published research
Founding General Chair of the MLPerf consortium and first author of the 2019 MLPerf Training Benchmark paper; co-author of the MLPerf Inference Benchmark paper.123
AILuminate Published research
Co-author of the MLCommons papers introducing the v0.5 AI Safety Benchmark in 2024 and AILuminate v1.0, its AI risk and reliability benchmark, in 2025.45
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- David StutzSafety and alignment · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Samuel R. BowmanSafety and alignment · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Hjalmar WijkEvaluation and benchmarks · Safety and alignment
- Jacob SteinhardtSafety and alignment · Evaluation and benchmarks
- Eric HorvitzEvaluation and benchmarks · Safety and alignment
- Beth BarnesEvaluation and benchmarks · Safety and alignment
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5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026