Rosemary Francis

Rosemary Francis FREng is a British engineer and technologist. She is best known for her work in the field of supercomputers and is CTO at CommonAI Compute,^[1] a cloud computing startup founded by Sir Andy Hopper. Francis obtained her PhD in computer architecture, while studying at the University of Cambridge.^[2] Following her education, Francis co-founded Ellexus to build tools for managing complex tools chains required during the design of semiconductors.^[3] In 2020, the startup she founded was acquired by US-based Altair Engineering for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition, Francis became Chief Scientist at the tech engineering firm.^[4]

She is a member of Raspberry Pi Foundation,^[5] and became a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow in 2023.^[6]