Experts from multidisciplinary fields in a dedicated single-track setting problem solving the future of interconnects and electro-optical packaging:
In a career spanning nearly four decades, Dally has pioneered many of the fundamental technologies underlying today’s supercomputer and networking architectures. As head of NVIDIA Research, he leads a team of more than 300 around the globe who are inventing technologies for a wide variety of applications, including AI, HPC, graphics and n
In a career spanning nearly four decades, Dally has pioneered many of the fundamental technologies underlying today’s supercomputer and networking architectures. As head of NVIDIA Research, he leads a team of more than 300 around the globe who are inventing technologies for a wide variety of applications, including AI, HPC, graphics and networking.
Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2009 as chief scientist and senior vice president of research, he chaired Stanford University’s computer science department for some four years.
Dally is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery.
He’s written four textbooks, published more than 250 papers and holds over 120 patents, and has received the IEEE Seymour Cray Award, ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award and ACM Maurice Wilkes Award.
Dr. Emily Kinser currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA E). Her focus at ARPA-E is on sensors and semiconductor technologies, including 3D Integration and silicon photonics.
Dr. Kinser began her career at IBM where she worked in a number of roles, including as a semiconductor engineer,
Dr. Emily Kinser currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA E). Her focus at ARPA-E is on sensors and semiconductor technologies, including 3D Integration and silicon photonics.
Dr. Kinser began her career at IBM where she worked in a number of roles, including as a semiconductor engineer, patent engineer, and research strategist; she has 69 patents to date and was named “IBM Master Inventor” in 2015. Her personal research focused on nano-scale surface engineering for biomaterials and nanopatterned biosensors. Prior to joining ARPA-E, Emily worked at 3M Corporate Research as the Director of the Inorganics, Ceramics, and Applied Physics Lab. She is active in the materials professional societies ASM & TMS and was named ASM Fellow in 2023.
Dr. Kinser earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Materials Science & Engineering from Iowa State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Yale.
Ram Huggahalli is a Principal Hardware Engineer at Microsoft and leads the Platform and Physical Technologies team in enabling new technologies for future AI and General-Purpose compute platforms. Among the various exciting projects, his team is evaluating optical interconnect technologies for AI Scale-up communication and memory disaggre
Ram Huggahalli is a Principal Hardware Engineer at Microsoft and leads the Platform and Physical Technologies team in enabling new technologies for future AI and General-Purpose compute platforms. Among the various exciting projects, his team is evaluating optical interconnect technologies for AI Scale-up communication and memory disaggregation use cases. Ram has previously contributed to Microsoft's Cobalt 100 and Cobalt 200 processors as an IO and platform architect. Prior to Microsoft, Ram was the lead performance architect for Intel's large-scale HPC interconnect products. Ram has over 20 patents and graduated with an MS in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Management at the University of Missouri.
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