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Daniel Kroening "AI Accelerators 101"

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Siebel School of Computing & Data Science, University of Illinois
Location
SC 2405
Date
Oct 9, 2024   12:30 pm  
Speaker
Daniel Kroening, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon
Contact
Charith Mendis
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Originating Calendar
Siebel School Speakers Calendar

Abstract: The talk will cover the basics of accelerating both inference and training for LLM transformer architectures, using the combination of a compiler and a systolic compute array. 

Bio: Daniel Kroening is a Senior Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon, where he works on the correctness of the Neuron Compiler for distributed training and inference. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and is the co-founder of Diffblue Ltd., a University spinout that develops AI that targets code and code-like artefacts.

He has received the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Inventor Recognition Award, an IBM Faculty Award, a Microsoft Research SEIF Award, and the Wolfson Research Merit Award. He serves on the CAV steering committee and was co-chair of FLOC 2018, EiC of Springer FMSD, and is co-author of the textbooks on Decision Procedures and Model Checking.

Host: Charith Mendis

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