The Panel
At end of the tutorial, we will have a panel of experts discuss the future of FPGAs for Deep Learning,
moderated by Dr. Philip Leong (University of Sydney)
Panelists
Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Director of AMD Center of Excellence
Co-lead IIDAI Hybrid Cloud
Ex-software engineer at Aplus Design Technologies.
Delivering signature projects like FCUDA, BLESS, RIP, Cloud-DNN, DNNBuilder, SkyNet, ScaleHLS, etc.
Mr. Raymond Nijssen (Achronix)
Vice President and Chief Technologist (Chief Software Architect) at Achronix
Over 20 years of experience in the FPGA and EDA industries in various technical and management positions.
Ex-leader engineer at Tabula, where he was responsible for placement and timing analysis of a time-multiplexed FPGA technology.
One of the first engineers at the Magma project
Prof. Vaughn Betz (U of T)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto
Ex-Senior Director & Software Engineering at Intel
Former Vice President Engineer at Right Track CAD
Ex-Software Engineer at Integrated Engineering Software
Martin Langhammer (Intel)
Senior Principal Engineer at Altera (Intel) since 1999. At Intel, he contributes in a number of different areas, such as FPGA architecture, arithmetic datapath design, FEC implementation, and compiler design
Ex-CTO at Hammercores (acquired by Altera).
Field applications engineer at Kaytronics Inc.
Former IBM Engineer
Samuel Bayliss (Xilinx)
Fellow, Software Engineering at AMD/Xilinx
Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Imperial College, London