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CEO, Google Cloud
As CEO of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian has consistently grown sales by billions of dollars year after year. Kurian is making Google Cloud a formidable player against cloud rivals, and Cloud AI is key to his forward-looking strategy.
Previously, Thomas Kurian was the Executive Vice President of Oracle Product Development. He was responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, software development, and delivery of Oracle’s software product portfolio
Kurian has a BA in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He also has an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
VP & GM of Machine Learning, Systems, & Cloud AI (MSCA)
Amin Vahdat is an Engineering Fellow and Vice President for the Machine Learning, Systems, and Cloud AI organization. His team is responsible for Compute, Platforms, Cloud AI and Core ML, and Network Infrastructure.
Vahdat is active in Computer Science research, with more than 54,000 citations to over 200 refereed publications across cloud infrastructure, software defined networking, data consistency, operating systems, storage systems, data center architecture, and optical networking.
In the past, he was the SAIC Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. Vahdat received his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Vahdat is an ACM Fellow and a National Academy of Engineering member. He has been recognized with a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Duke University David and Janet Vaughn Teaching Award, the UC Berkeley Distinguished EECS Alumni Award, and the SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement Award.