Building an AI platform

Welcome everyone,

On Wednesday, we are going to have a talk by Amir Khosrowshahi. Amir is going to present Intel’s strategy to provide deep learning as a core technology that is easy to use, high performance, scalable, and power efficient. This involves combining a diverse portfolio of hardware architectures with layers of software, services, and machine learning algorithms. We will discuss challenges encountered and how they were addressed.

About the speaker

Amir is a VP and CTO of the AI products group at Intel. He was co-founder and CTO of Nervana, a startup providing a full-stack deep learning platform. Nervana was acquired by Intel almost a year ago. He has a research background in neuroscience, machine learning, and distributed computing. He started his career at Goldman Sachs where he was a derivatives trader. Amir has a PhD from Berkeley and AM and AB from Harvard.