Matthew Burns
Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.
Thang Tran
Dr. Thang Tran, Principal Architect of Andes Technology Corp. and veteran of many high-performance computing (HPC) designs. Dr. Tran has engineered innovative CPUs at Intel, AMD, Freescale, TI, Analog Devices among others. His doctoral thesis at the University of Texas at Austin from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was on Superscalar Microprocessor Architecture with Multi-Bit Scoreboard Technique.
John Min
John Min is the Director of Field Applications Engineering for North America at Andes. John has been working for processor companies in the Silicon Valley for past 30 years with companies including at Hewlett Packard, LG, ARC, MIPS and SiFive. He brings wealth of information on Architecture of processors, IP and high performance processing. John specializes in balancing the Power, Area and Performance to yield optimized SoC. John is a graduate of University of Southern California with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.
Binay Ackalloor
Binay Ackalloor leads the Cloud HPC team in Intel’s Cloud & Enterprise Solutions Group to drive adoption of Intel instances on HPC Cloud.
Prior to this role, Binay led teams that engaged with Cloud Service Providers and Fortune 500 Enterprises for Intel’s Artificial Intelligence Platforms Group (AIPG). He created the Intel Center of Excellence for AI as a cross-Intel forum which continues today.
Binay has held several roles ranging from software and hardware engineering to business. He holds several software patents, has co-authored published papers, and has appeared on panels, presented at many industry events, and been featured in publications such as Forbes.AI.
Binay holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Arizona State University.
Brandon Wang
Brandon Wang is a Vice President at Synopsys, overseeing corporate level growth strategies, including M&A, business and research partnerships, and new ventures. Prior to that, he served various senior management roles across strategy, marketing, solution engineering and R&D at Cadence and Arm. An Electrical and Computer Engineer by training, Brandon holds 10 patents, and has published at 20+ IEEE conferences, in journal papers and invited talks; He also has an MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Adam Abed
