Dimitris Gizopoulos is a professor with the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, at the University of Athens in Greece where he leads the Computer Architecture Laboratory. The group’s research focuses on the dependability, the energy-efficiency, and the performance of computer architectures built around CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators; special focus is on the evaluation and the improvement of the computing systems resilience to faults, aging, bugs, variability. Gizopoulos has published more than 200 papers in top-tier IEEE and ACM conferences and journals and has received several best paper nominations and awards. He has served as associate editor for several IEEE and ACM Transactions and Magazines (currently the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, the IEEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, and the ACM Computing Surveys). He is member of Program, Organizing and Steering Committees of IEEE and ACM conferences. He has served as the general chair of the 53rd and the 54th editions of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), as General and Program Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Online Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), and is the Program Chair of the 1st IEEE Computer Society RAS in Data Centers Summit 2024. He is an IEEE Fellow, a Golden Core member of the IEEE Computer Society and a Distinguished ACM member.
Dr. Zane A. Ball is a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center and AI (DCAI) Product Management Group. DCAI Product Management is responsible for end-to-end stewardship of DCAI’s systems, SW, CPU, GPU, and custom product line through the entirety of the product lifecycle. Prior to his product management role, Ball was CVP and GM of platform engineering and architecture for Intel’s data center business. Ball has also served as Co-GM of Intel’s foundry effort as a VP in the Technology and Manufacturing group and VP of the Client Computing Group including roles as GM of the desktop client business and as GM of global customer engineering.
Ball has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all earned from Rice University. He also holds six patents in high-speed electrical design.