Kim Hazelwood

Westcoast Head of Engineering, AI Research

Facebook

Kim Hazelwood is an engineering leader whose expertise lies at the intersection of scalable computer systems and applied machine learning. Her roles at Facebook have included multiple engineering organizational leadership roles across Infrastructure and Research. Prior to Facebook, Kim held positions including Director of Research at Yahoo Labs, Software Engineer in the datacenter division of Google, Research Scientist at Intel, and tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Kim holds a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University and has authored over 50 publications and one book. She is a recipient of the MIT "Top 35 Innovators under 35"​ award, the ACM SIGPLAN "Test of Time" Award, the Anita Borg Early Career Award, and an NSF Career Award. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Computing Research Association. 

Fadi Aboud

Senior Principal Engineer

Intel

Fadi Aboud is a Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation. He leads the development and deployment of Tools, Flows and Methodology solutions for IP, SOC and Platform level power, performance and thermal. Fadi previously led the development and deployment of Intel’s custom design implementation flow, for the high-speed core IP design.

Fadi holds a degree in electrical engineering from the Technion Institute of Haifa-Israel, graduating in 1992. He currently lives in the city of Nazareth in Israel with his wife and three children.

 

Craig Orr

Head of US Marketing, Samsung Foundry

Samsung

Buvna Ayyagari-Sangamalli

VP, Head of Design Technology

Applied Materials

Buvna Ayyagari-Sangamalli heads the Design Technology team at Applied Materials. With a career in various roles from Design Engineering to development of Customer IP Subsystems, she is intimately familiar with design challenges. At Synopsys she played a pivotal role in growing the IP business, where she led the IP Applications Engineering team and launched Customer IP Subsystems for AI, Automotive, IoT and other segments. Prior to that, she played a critical role in defining low-power EDA design methodologies. At Intel she worked on various mobile, desktop and processor chips. Her well-rounded 20 years in the semiconductor industry straddled architecture, design, EDA and IP.

 

Arun Venkatachar

VP, AI & Central Engineering

Synopsys

Anand Iyer

Director, Pathfinding & Product Planning

Samsung

Tom Moody

VP of Technology & Commercialisation

Almac

Adam Garske

Senior Scientist

Dupont Industrial Biosciences

Adrienne Davenport

Director of Research-Enzyme Discovery and Screening

BASF

Iman Farasat

Associate Director, Biologics Discovery

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson