Keynote Speakers
Confidential Computing: a concerted effort across the system stack
Hubertus Franke (IBM)
Dr. Franke is a Distinguished Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center since 1993. Since 2000 he was a manager in the Scalable Systems department having managed ~20 researchers of which most have a Ph.D. in CS or EE. Between 2013-2015 he was a Senior Manager for Software Defined Infrastructures. His group innovates and contribute(ds) to IBM’s System and Cloud product line in the area of processor architecture, operating systems, performance optimization, compiler, HPC, middleware and cloud solutions. Dr. Franke graduated with a Diplom Informatik degree (computer science) from the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), Germany in 1987. He obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from Vanderbilt University. He authored / co-authored 140 publications in peer reviewed conferences and journals in the domains of HPC communication protocols, computer architectures, operating system design for scalable systems, memory management, software engineering and robotics and holds 174 patents in these areas. He is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, an IBM Master Inventor and an ACM Fellow. Since 2011 he has been an Adjunct Full Professor at the Courant Institute at New York University, year-round teaching graduate classes in the field of operating systems. In addition, he serves on the Rutgers University ECE department industry advisory board and was recently appointed Adjunct Research Professor, ECE, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
AI Acceleration: Co-optimizing Algorithms, Hardware, and Software
Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan (IBM)
Viji Srinivasan is a Distinguished Research Staff Member and a manager of the accelerator architectures and compilers group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights. At IBM, she has worked on various aspects of data management including energy-efficient processor designs, microarchitecture of the memory hierarchies of large-scale servers, cache coherence management of symmetric multiprocessors, accelerators for data analytics applications and more recently end-to-end accelerator solutions for AI. Many of her research contributions have been incorporated into IBM’s Power & System-z Enterprise-class servers.
