Paolo Faraboschi
Paolo Faraboschi is a Vice President and HPE Fellow and directs the Artificial Intelligence Research Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. Paolo has been at HP/HPE for three decades, and worked on a broad range of technologies, from embedded printer processors to exascale supercomputers. He previously led exascale computing research (2017-2020), and the hardware architecture of “The Machine” project (2014-2016), pioneered low-energy servers with HP’s project Moonshot (2010-2014), drove scalable system-level simulation research (2004-2009), and was the principal architect of a family of embedded VLIW cores (1994-2003), widely used in video SoCs and HP’s printers. Paolo is an IEEE Fellow (2014) for “contributions to embedded processor architecture and system-on-chip technology”, author of over 100 publications, 70 granted patents, and the book “Embedded Computing: a VLIW approach”. He received a Ph.D. in EECS from the University of Genoa, Italy.
Kim Hazelwood
Kim Hazelwood is an engineering leader whose expertise lies at the intersection of scalable computer systems and applied machine learning. Her roles at Facebook have included multiple engineering organizational leadership roles across Infrastructure and Research. Prior to Facebook, Kim held positions including Director of Research at Yahoo Labs, Software Engineer in the datacenter division of Google, Research Scientist at Intel, and tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Kim holds a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University and has authored over 50 publications and one book. She is a recipient of the MIT "Top 35 Innovators under 35" award, the ACM SIGPLAN "Test of Time" Award, the Anita Borg Early Career Award, and an NSF Career Award. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Computing Research Association.
Fadi Aboud
Fadi Aboud is a Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. He leads the development and deployment of Tools, Flows and Methodology solutions for IP, SOC and Platform level power, performance and thermal. Fadi previously led the development and deployment of Intel’s custom design implementation flow, for the high-speed core IP design.
Fadi holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Technion Institute of Haifa-Israel, graduating in 1992. He currently lives in the city of Nazareth in Israel with his wife and three children.
Craig Orr
Buvna Ayyagari-Sangamalli
Buvna Ayyagari-Sangamalli heads the Design Technology team at Applied Materials. With a career in various roles from Design Engineering to development of Customer IP Subsystems, she is intimately familiar with design challenges. At Synopsys she played a pivotal role in growing the IP business, where she led the IP Applications Engineering team and launched Customer IP Subsystems for AI, Automotive, IoT and other segments. Prior to that, she played a critical role in defining low-power EDA design methodologies. At Intel she worked on various mobile, desktop and processor chips. Her well-rounded 20 years in the semiconductor industry straddled architecture, design, EDA and IP.
Arun Venkatachar
Anand Iyer
Tom Moody
Adam Garske
