Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Steven Young is a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working in the Computational Data Analytics Group. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Tennessee where he studied machine learning in the Machine Intelligence Lab. He also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Tennessee. His current research involves applying machine learning to large scale datasets with a focus on deep learning methods.
youngsr "at" ornl.gov
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Robert M. Patton is a computational analytics scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research is focused on nature-‐inspired computational techniques for large‐scale data analytics. He is a member of IEEE’s CI Society and ACM’s SIGEVO.
pattonrm "at" ornl.gov
Fraunhofer ITWM
Janis Keuper is a Senior Scientist at the Competence Center for High Performance Computing located at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. His main research interest are scalable algorithms for Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. Before joining ITWM in 2012, he was a Group Leader at the Intel Visual Computing Institute (Saarbrücken, Germany). Janis received his Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science form the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg and did his PostDoc training in the group of Prof. Bernd Jähne at the University of Heidelberg.
janis.keuper "at" itwm.fhg.de
NVIDIA
Dr. Michael Houston is a Distinguished Engineer at Nvidia. He leads the Deep Learning SW team and works on optimizing deep learning frameworks and algorithms for Nvidia platforms. Mike received his BS in Computer Science with honors from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2001. During his time at UCSD, he worked at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in the Visualization Group. He received his PhD from Stanford University where he worked in the Stanford Graphics Lab under the advisement of Pat Hanrahan and received an Intel PhD Fellowship. Mike spent several years at ATI and then as an AMD Fellow in the Advanced Technology Development Group working on hardware and software for heterogeneous computing before coming to Nvidia.
mhouston "at" nvidia.com
