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Meet the Program Committee

General Co-Chair

Jyotika Athavale
IEEE Computer Society President
RAS Director, Synopsys (US)

General Co-Chair

Yervant Zorian
Chief Architect & Fellow, Synopsys (US)

Program Chair

Dimitris Gizopoulos
University of Athens

Program Vice-Chair

Amr Haggag
Arm

Special Sessions Chair

Cecilia Metra
University of Bologna

Panel Chair

Savita Banerjee
Meta

Publicity Chair

Fei Su
Intel

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Harish Dixit, Meta

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Rama Govindaraju, Google

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Amit Pandey, Amazon

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Gabel Chong, Cisco

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Sankar Gurumurthy, AMD

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Yogesh Varma, Intel

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Drew Walton

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Bharath Parthasarathy, Google

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Siva Hari, Nvidia

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Kwabena Boateng, Amazon

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Ambar Sarkar, Nvidia

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Chris Connor, Intel

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Cameron McNairy, SiFive

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Srinivas Patil, Qualcomm

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Sreejit Chakravarty, Ampere Computing

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Ashu Bakhle, Intel

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Anu Ramamurthy, Microchip

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John G. Holm, Intel

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Chunsheng Liu, Alibaba

Keynote

Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Data Center and AI Product Management, Intel Corporation

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.