Organizers
Peter Vajda
Research Scientist Manager at Facebook,
Peter joined Facebook in 2014 as Research Scientist. Currently, he is managing the Mobile Vision team on efficient computer vision algorithms for mobile devices. Before joining Facebook, he was Visiting Assistant Professor in Stanford University, Stanford, USA, working on personalized multimedia system and mobile visual search. He completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012.
Kurt Keutzer
Professor at UC Berkeley
Kurt received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1984 and then joined the research division of AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1991 he joined Synopsys, Inc. where he ultimately became Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Research. In 1998 Kurt became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Kurt’s research group is currently focused on using parallelism to accelerate the training and deployment of Deep Neural Networks for applications in computer vision, speech recognition, multi-media analysis, and computational finance. Kurt has published six books, over 250 refereed articles, and is among the most highly cited authors in Hardware and Design Automation.
Pete Warden
Staff Research Engineer at Google
Pete Warden is the tech lead of TensorFlow's Mobile and Embedded team, and was previously CTO of Jetpac, acquired by Google in 2014.
Chris Rowen
BabbleLabs/Cognite Ventures
Chris is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist. He serves as CEO of BabbleLabs, a deep learning startup transforming speech processing. He has also led Cognite Ventures, a specialized analysis, investment and advisory company for deep learning startups. Previously, Chris was CEO and co-founder of Tensilica, a leading IP group the created extensible processors for mobile and embedded systems, and served as CTO of Cadences IP Group after Tensilica’s acquisition by Cadence. Chris is an IEEE Fellow, and has a PhD/MS in EE from Stanford.