Speakers

Dr Wu Feng
Dr Wu Feng
Virginia Tech
Dr. Feng is a faculty in Dept. of CS, ECE and BEAM he is also the Director of NSF SHREC center and a Turner Fellow in deptt. of ECE.

James Kulina
James Kulina
Executive Director Open Power
Executive Director Open Power

Boris Shingarov
Boris Shingarov
Labware Inc, Canada
VM Engineer


Jan Vrany
Jan Vrany
Labware Inc, Canada
VM Engineer

Mark Kurtz
Mark Kurtz
Neural Magic
Leader of ML and engineering teams focused on the design, development, and implementation of cutting-edge technologies and products. With over 12 years of experience in software engineering and machine learning, well-practiced in building and managing teams for both closed source and open source software solutions. Currently the Director of Machine Learning at Neural Magic, I am focused on lowering the cost, improving the performance, and increasing the adoption of deep learning technologies through SOTA research and engineering. An active GitHub contributor, blogger, and researcher with published papers in top ML conferences. Holds a Master's degree in robotics engineering from Washington University in St Louis along with a bachelors in applied math and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering.

Shaikh’s technical career at IBM spans 17 years. In the first 11 years, he was a Java developer and a tech lead when he and his teams designed, implemented, and deployed web-based tools for over 20 thousand support professionals at IBM. In parallel, he became an expert and researcher on search engine technology. Since 2016, he has been the machine learning lead for multiple functional areas at IBM. Shaikh is now pursuing a Ph.D. in machine learning. He managed 4 university research projects for IBM. He has published 10 scientific papers, wrote 9 articles, filed 8 patents, and spoke at many external events on topics related to machine learning. Shaikh believes in growth-mindset. At present, he is applying zettelkasten, atomic habit, and deep work principles to optimize his workflow for knowledge work.

Sivakumar Shanmugam
Sivakumar Shanmugam
Werner Enterprises
Shiva is a database architect and experienced Db2 Database Administrator with Business application development for large organizations using IBM's Db2 supported AIX, Client Server and Mainframe environments.

RSM, Hybrid and Workload-Optimized Systems

Farhang Yazdani
Farhang Yazdani
BroadPak Corporation
President and CTO

Ben Sandbrook
Ben Sandbrook
Advanced Rsearch Computing @ VT
Ben has worked as a systems engineer for more than a decade. Ben is subject matter expert in container orchestration and linux administration.

Dr. Satyadhyan
Dr. Satyadhyan
K L E Technological University
Satyadhyan Chickerur received his B.E degree in E&C, M.Tech in CSE and PhD in Computer and Information Sciences. He is presently Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering and head of Centre for High Performance Computing at KLE Technological University, Hubli. He has served as faculty in various engineering colleges in India. He is a member of ISTE, IEEE and ACM. He was the Execom member of IEEE signal processing society, Bangalore chapter (2007-2009). He was a Member of Intel - IISC - VTU multicore Curriculum Development committee. He was one of the judges and problem setter for ACM ICPC programming contest of the Asia Regional's in the year 2007 and 2008. He has received various grants from industry and other Organisations for research as well.

Experienced Business Unit Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Cloud technologies, Enterprise Hardware & Software, Enterprise Systems Architecture and Quantum Computing. Strong operations professional with business management skills and a technical understanding of how things work too, and experiences in all continents.


Dr D.K. Panda
Dr D.K. Panda
Ohio State University
Dr Panda is a Professor and University Distinguished Scholar of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. He leads the Network-Based Computing Research Group. He is the Director of the newly established $20M NSF-AI Institute ICICLE .

His current role focuses on Strategy/Management and Enterprise Transformation by adopting of High Performance Computing, Deep Learning, Emerging AI Technologies in order to help them to rapidly transform the way businesses operate, solve problems, and gain competitive advantage.

Graduated with honors from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Minor in Business. She retain excellent mathematical, analytical, and communication skills. Extensive background in the latest social media platforms.