[4] His research group created open-source machine learning based self-optimizing compiler, MILEPOST GCC, considered to be the first in the world.

[5] At the end of the MILEPOST project he established cTuning foundation to crowdsource program optimisation and machine learning across diverse devices provided by volunteers.

Since 2015 Fursin leads Artifact Evaluation at several ACM and IEEE computer systems conferences.

He is also a founding member of the ACM taskforce on Data, Software, and Reproducibility in Publication.

While in Edinburgh, he worked on foundations of practical program autotuning and performance prediction.