Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Seung-Hwan Lim is a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory working in the Computational Data Analytics Group. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University where he studied data analysis in parallel and distributed systems. He also holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Seoul National University. His current research involves applying machine learning to large scale datasets with a focus on deep learning and graph analysis methods.
lims1 "at" ornl.gov
North Carolina State University
Prior to joining NC State, Shen was the Adina Allen Term Distinguished Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at The College of William and Mary. He was a Visiting Researcher at M.I.T., Microsoft Research, and Intel Labs between 2012 and 2013, and an assistant professor at The College of William and Mary from 2006 to 2012. His research in data locality for exascale computing won the prestigious Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Department of Energy in 2011. His research in input-centric program dynamic optimizations won the CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation in 2010. He is a receipt of Google Faculty Research Award. For the high impact of his research, he has been appointed an IBM Canada CAS Research Faculty Fellow since 2010. He is currently an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Shen received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from University of Rochester, his M.S. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his B.E. in Industrial Engineering from North China University of Technology.
xshen5 "at" ncsu.edu
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
