Sumti Jairath
Sumti Jairath is Chief Architect at SambaNova Systems, with expertise in hardware-software co-design. Sumti worked on PA-RISC-based Superdome servers back at HP, followed by several generations of SPARC CMT processors at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. At Oracle, Sumti worked on SQL, Data-analytics and Machine Learning acceleration in SPARC processors. Sumti holds 27 patents in computer architecture and hardware-software co-design.
Colette Johnston
Dr. Sehat Sutardja
Dr. Sehat Sutardja is Founder & CEO at FLC Technology Group. Prior to this, he was a co-founder and CEO of Marvell Technology Group and took the company public in 2000 after achieving record-breaking profitability and scale in a short period of time. Dr. Sutardja and his wife, Weili Dai, also a co-founder of Marvell, led Marvell for over 20 years and built it into one of the top semiconductor companies in the world. They are now active investors and Board members in numerous public and private companies. They are also active philanthropists focused on education, green technologies and mentoring young tech entrepreneurs globally.
Partha Ranganathan
Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan is currently part of the team at Google designing their next-generation systems and datacenters. Before this, he was a HP Fellow and Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs where he led their research on systems and datacenters. Dr. Ranganathan' has made key contributions around energy-aware user interfaces, heterogeneous multi-core processors, power capping, federated power management, energy modeling/benchmarking, microblades and disaggregated architectures, and new systems for non-volatile memory. He was one of the primary developers of the publicly distributed Rice Simulator for ILP Multiprocessors (RSIM). Dr. Ranganathan's work has led to broad impact in both academia and industry including several commercial products such as HP Moonshot servers. He holds more than 50 patents (with another 45 pending) and has published extensively, including several award-winning papers. He also teaches regularly (including, most recently, at Stanford) and has contributed to several popular computer architecture textbooks. Dr. Ranganathan's work has been featured extensively in the press including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, San Francisco Chronicle, Times of India, Slashdot, Youtube, and Tom's hardware guide. Dr. Ranganathan has been named one of the world's top young innovators by MIT Technology Review, as one of the top 15 enterprise technology rock stars by Business Insider, and has been recognized with the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award and Rice University's Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni award. Dr. Ranganathan received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice University, Houston. He is also an IEEE Fellow. More information can be found at www.parthasarathys.org/partha-cv.html
Specialties: systems architecture and management, power management, energy efficiency, servers and datacenters, blade servers, modeling and simulation
Nick Wright
Nick Wright is the advanced technologies group lead and the NERSC chief architect. He focuses upon evaluating future technologies for potential application in scientific computing. He led the effort to optimize the architecture of the Perlmutter machine, the first NERSC platform designed to meet needs of both large scale simulation and data analysis from experimental facilities. Before moving to NERSC, he was a member of the Performance Modeling and Characterization (PMaC) group at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. He earned both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees in chemistry at the University of Durham in England.
Jim Handy
Jim Handy of Objective Analysis has over 35 years in the electronics industry including 20 years as a leading semiconductor and SSD industry analyst. Early in his career he held marketing and design positions at leading semiconductor suppliers including Intel, National Semiconductor, and Infineon. A frequent presenter at trade shows, Mr. Handy is highly respected for his technical depth, accurate forecasts, widespread industry presence and volume of publication. He has written hundreds of market reports, articles for trade journals, and white papers, and is frequently interviewed and quoted in the electronics trade press and other media.
Jean Bozman
Jean S. Bozman is an IT industry analyst focusing on cloud infrastructure and the proud founder of a new company, Cloud Architects Advisors LLC.
She has had experience as an IDC Research VP for 10+ years and has covered the semiconductor industry as an analyst for over 20 years.
Dimitri Kusnezov
Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov [Kooz-NETS-off] was confirmed as the Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) on September 8, 2022. As the science advisor to the Homeland Security Secretary, Dr. Kusnezov heads the research, development, innovation and testing and evaluation activities in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) operational Components and first responders across the nation. S&T is responsible for identifying operational gaps, conceptualizing art-of-the-possible solutions, and delivering operational results that improve the security and resilience of the nation.
Prior to DHS, Dr. Kusnezov was a theoretical physicist working at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) focusing on emerging technologies. He served in numerous positions, including the Deputy Under Secretary for Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Technology where he led efforts to drive AI innovation and bring it into DOE missions, business and operations, including through the creation of a new AI Office.
Dr. Kusnezov has served in scientific and national security positions, including Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, Chief Scientist for the National Nuclear Security Administration, Director of Advanced Simulation and Computing and the Director of the multi-billion-dollar National Security Science, Technology and Engineering programs. He created numerous programs, including for Minority Serving Institutions, international partners, private sector and philanthropic entities. He has worked across agencies to deliver major milestones such as DOE’s 10-year grand challenge for a 100 Teraflop supercomputer, and first of their kind and world’s fastest supercomputers.
Prior to DOE and his pursuit of public service, Dr. Kusnezov had a long career in academia where he published more than 100 articles and edited two books. He joined Yale University faculty where he was a professor for more than a decade in Theoretical Physics and served as a visiting professor at numerous universities around the world. Before this post, Dr. Kusnezov did a brief postdoc and was an instructor at Michigan State University, following a year of research at the Institut fur Kernphysik, KFA-Julich, in Germany. He earned his MS in Physics and Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics at Princeton University and received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Physics and in Pure Mathematics with highest honors from UC Berkeley.
Dheevatsa Mudigere
Dheevatsa Mudigere is Principal Research Scientist at the AI System Co-design team at Meta. His research is mostly around on HW/SW co-design, parallel algorithms and high-performance computing. Over the past few years Dheevatsa and his team have been focusing on large scale AI, specifically deep learning recommendation models – designing and deploying efficient HW + SW solutions at FB-scale.
