Sunnyvale In-Person Workshop

Jay Boisseau
Advanced Computing Strategist, Google Cloud

Jay Boisseau is an advanced computing strategist at Google, where he manages a strategic initiative to make Google Cloud the best platform for scientific/technical computing and leads the Google Cloud Advanced Computing Community. He is an experienced leader in HPC and advanced computing technologies, with 30 years of experience developing and leading programs in academia and industry. His previous experience includes founding and leading the Texas Advanced Computing Center to global prominence, and providing strategic planning and special projects in HPC at Dell Technologies. Jay also leads the Austin Forum on Technology & Society, founded the Austin AI Alliance, and is the lead founder and owner of Remedy bar in Austin (where he conducts lots of tech meetings and events so it aligns). He earned his doctorate from UT Austin in astronomy, which led him into supercomputing and technologies.

Giri Chukkapalli
Distinguished Engineer, Nvidia

Giri Chukkapalli is a distinguished Engineer in Datacenter, HPC and AI division of Nvidia. His roles involve understanding trajectory of applications and algorithms in HPC and AI and influence the Nvidia Architecture roadmap. In addition, He is a technical lead to some Key HPC and AI partners such as DoE and DoD Labs, RIKEN and others. He had a long Carrier in HPC spanning more than two decades, working at SDSC, Sun Micro Systems, Cray and Broadcom before joining Nvidia. Giri holds Ph.D from University of Toronto.

John Fonner
Senior Product Manager, Google Cloud

As a member of the High Performance Computing group at Google, John Fonner is dedicated to making Google's planet-scale computing infrastructure the premier platform for public sector research. With nearly two decades of experience in scientific high-performance computing and a background in Biomedical Engineering, John has a proven track record of leading and contributing to large-scale cyberinfrastructure projects that broaden the reach of scientific resources and accelerate the pace of discovery. Prior to joining Google, John was the Director of Special Projects at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, where he led and contributed to numerous research and cyberinfrastructure projects funded by the NSF, NIH, DARPA, and others.

Adnan Khaleel
Outbound Product Manager, Google Cloud

Adnan Khaleel is driven by a single goal: making powerful technology accessible to a broader range of users. He works closely with engineering teams to translate customer needs into product strategy, ensuring that tools are intuitive and easy to consume. This passion has been a constant throughout his more than 20-year career at innovators like Intel, Dell, and Cray. He has always focused on creating new growth engines—from leading Dell’s HPC democratization strategy to pioneering Cray's entry into the AI and data analytics space.

Today at Google, his core mission is to scale these solutions globally by creating effective go-to-market strategies. While fostering a vibrant partner ecosystem is one important way he achieves this, his main focus is on empowering users directly. He is always happy to connect with anyone passionate about solving big problems in this space.

Annie Ma-Weaver
Group Product Manager, Google Cloud

Annie Ma-Weaver is the Group PM for HPC and works to build products and solutions to enable scientists, researchers and engineers to run HPC workloads on Google Cloud. She has been with Google for 15+ years in roles including Chief of Staff, Strategy and BD. Before Google, Annie conducted behavioral economics research at Columbia Business School, worked in investment banking in Hong Kong and consulted for the Scottish government. Annie received an MBA from the Haas School of Business and a BA in Economics and Psychology from Columbia University.

Ani Nersisyan
Staff Hardware Engineer, Manager, Google Quantum AI

Ani is a Staff Hardware Engineer, Manager at Google Quantum AI, where she leads the team responsible for quantum processor design and infrastructure. Over the past four years, she has overseen the development and integration of critical hardware design components that make up Google QAI processors. Before joining Google, Ani was a Senior Quantum Engineer at Rigetti Computing, where she focused on the development of superconducting quantum processors. Ani holds a DPhil in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Oxford, with research specializing in the development and characterization of carbon nanotube-based superconducting devices. Ani's academic foundation includes an MSc in Physics from ETH Zurich and Princeton University, following a BSc in Physics from Yerevan State University.