oneAPI DevSummit 2023

Sriram Ramkrishna - Intel/ oneAPI Community Manager

Sriram Ramkrishna is the community manager of oneAPI with over 20 years working in technical and open source communities ranging from application and user space communities to communities who work in kernel and near metal space. Today, Sri is focused on expanding and evolving the oneAPI community into a vibrant and active community that provides value and scope for innovation in the various fields that involve AI, HPC and beyond.

Susan Kahler - Intel/AI Product Manager

Susan Kahler is a Product Marketing Manager for AI at Intel. She has her Ph.D. in Human Factors and Ergonomics, having used analytics to quantify and compare mental models of how humans learn complex operations. Throughout her well-rounded career, she has held roles in user centered design, product management, customer insights, consulting and operational risk. Susan recently completed her Master of Science in Analytics, focusing on healthcare analytics. She also holds a patent for a software navigation system to guide users through dynamically changing systems.

Tony Mongkolsmai - Intel/Software Architect and Technical Evangelist

Tony is a software architect and technical evangelist at Intel. He has 20 years of industry experience designing, implementing and leading production grade software solutions. He was a lead architect for Intel’s performance tools team. He also led an engineering team that designed and implemented a Cloud Native, scale out AI Data Center for Intel. He also was part of the group that successfully proposed the creation of a Sustainability Technical Advisory Group for the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF).

Sebastian Witalec - Weaviate/Developer Relations

Sebastian Witalec is the head of Developer Relations at Weaviate. He loves working on both serious and fun projects, and one day he will use his robot army to conquer the world.

He is always happy to learn about new stuff and to pass the knowledge as far as his voice (or the wire) can take him. Sebastian is based in Copenhagen, actively working with various Dev communities across Europe. When not acting techie, he is a massive football fan/player (probably bigger at heart than in skills).

Ahmed Joudad - Beewant/Ceo & Founder

Ahmed Joudad is the founder of Beewant, a data platform that provides high-quality training data to companies building AI applications. He spent most of his career working for a global provider of financial market data and infrastructure. He’s always had a passion for technology, particularly AI and machine learning. Ahmed believes that the key to unlocking the full potential of AI is to provide companies with clean, accurate data that would enable their algorithms to learn and improve.

Ahmed is based in Paris and is a passionate golfer in his free time.

Hartwig Anzt - University of Tennessee & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/Director & Senior Research Scientist

Hartwig Anzt is the Director of the Innovative Computing Lab (ICL) and professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Tennessee. He also holds a Senior Research Scientist position at Steinbuch Centre for Computing at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where he previously held a Junior Professorship in the Faculty of Computer Science. Hartwig holds a PhD in applied mathematics and specializes in iterative methods and preconditioning techniques for the next generation hardware architectures. He also has a long track record of high-quality development. He is author of the MAGMA-sparse open source software package and managing lead of the Ginkgo math software library. Hartwig is the PI of Software Technology (ST) projects that are part of the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP), including a coordinated effort aimed at integrating low-precision functionality into high-accuracy simulation codes. He is also a PI in the EuroHPC Project MICROCARD.

Rafael Lago - Intel/ Technical Consulting Engineer

Rafael Lago has his Computer Science PhD with a strong academic background. He has worked in research institutes in Brazil, Canada, France and Germany and is specialized in numerical linear algebra and MPI. He has applied his expertise on seismology, geophysics, plasma physics and applied mathematics applications. In January 2022, Rafael joined Intel as a TCE in EMEA’s Team.

István Z Reguly - PPCU ITK/Associate Professor

Istvan Zoltan Reguly got his MSc in 2010 and his PhD in 2014 from PPCU ITK, in computer science. He leads the high performance computing lab at PPCU ITK, where they do research into the design and implementation of domain specific languages for high performance computing.

James Bickerstaff - SHREC & University of Pittsburgh/ PhD Student

James Bickerstaff received his BS in computer engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in December 2021 and is now a second year PhD student. He is a member of the NSF Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC) research lab. His primary research focus is accelerating high-throughput applications using FPGAs with oneAPI.

Zhibo Li - University of Edinburgh/ PhD Student

Zhibo Li is a PhD student of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He focuses on the research of Computer Systems. He is working on the Collection Skeletons library towards portable performance across multiple devices including GPU. He is proud to be an Intel Student Ambassador!

Melbin Martin - Christ University/Masters Student

Melbin Martin is doing his final year as a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) student. He is passionate about technology and its boundless potential. His particular interests lie in the fields of data analytics and cricket analytics, where he enjoys analyzing data to derive meaningful insights. With a good foundation in programming languages and software development, he has gained his skills in data collection, processing, and interpretation. He is excited to apply his knowledge in these areas to make data-driven decisions and deliver valuable insights to organizations. Outside of his academic pursuits, he is an avid movie enthusiast and enjoy immersing myself in the world of cinema.

Aksel Alpay - Heidelberg University/Research & Software Engineer

Aksel Alpay is a researcher and software engineer from Heidelberg University, where he works on high performance computing topics. In particular, he is the creator and lead developer of the hipSYCL SYCL implementation, and also engages within the Khronos SYCL working group to advance the language.

Moderator: James Reinders - Intel/Engineer

James Reinders is an engineer at Intel, and is an author/co-author/editor of ten technical books related to parallel programming; his latest book is about SYCL (free download: https://www.apress.com/book/9781484255735). His parallel computing experience spans four decades, and he is currently focused on helping enable parallel programming in a heterogeneous world.

Maria Elli - Intel/Data Scientist

Maria Soledad Elli joined Intel in 2017 as Data Scientist focusing on Automated Vehicles (AV) safety analysis using simulation and AV safety standards and regulation. Now as part of the CTO Office for the Corporate Strategy and Ventures team, Maria helps the team derive insights from different applications to advance Intel’s future and growth. In 2013, she received her BS degree in Computer Engineering at the National University of Tucuman, Argentina. She worked until 2015 as a Software Engineer for Radar applications at the Aerospace and Government Division at INVAP SE, one of the leading Latin American corporations in applied high-tech.

Felix LeClair - Open Source Developer

Felix LeClair is an open-source engineer focused on High Performance Computing (HPC), Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) and SYCL. He specializes in optimizing software performance and enabling developers to make the most of cutting-edge hardware technologies, be they CPUs, GPUs, or recently, FPGAs.

Currently, Felix is focused on accelerating OpenBLAS and ffmpeg AVX512 to make reduced precision types more accessible for classical compute. Felix is passionate about open-source software and believes that collaboration and knowledge sharing are key to advancing the field of HPC.

When he’s not busy tinkering with code, Felix enjoys hiking through the mountains of his native province of Ontario, theory crafting on the future directions of compute and poking fun at some nonsensical areas of the industry.

István Z Reguly - PPCU ITK/Associate Professor

Istvan Zoltan Reguly got his MSc in 2010 and his PhD in 2014 from PPCU ITK, in computer science. He leads the high performance computing lab at PPCU ITK, where they do research into the design and implementation of domain specific languages for high performance computing.

Zhuldyzzhan Sagimbayev - Cerebra/Lead ML Engineer

Zhuldyzzhan Sagimbayev works at Cerebra as a lead ML along with 5 ML engineers. He has experience working with ML for about 5 years. He has a Master’s degree from Kazakh British Technical University, which is a top technical university in Kazakhstan.

Jian Huang - University of Tennessee/ Professor of Computer Science

Dr. Jian Huang is a professor of computer science in the EECS department at UT. He started as an assistant professor at UT after graduating with his PhD in computer science from Ohio State University in 2001. His research is in data visualization, analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC). His work on Visualization as a Service (VaaS) has expanded use case scenarios of data-intensive visualizations for widespread accessibility, shareability, reproducibility and replicability. His work is funded by NSF, Department of Energy, Department of Interior, and Intel.

Hartwig Anzt - University of Tennessee & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/Director & Senior Research Scientist

Hartwig Anzt is the Director of the Innovative Computing Lab (ICL) and professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Tennessee. He also holds a Senior Research Scientist position at Steinbuch Centre for Computing at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology where he previously held a Junior Professorship in the Faculty of Computer Science. Hartwig holds a PhD in applied mathematics and specializes in iterative methods and preconditioning techniques for the next generation hardware architectures. He also has a long track record of high-quality development. He is author of the MAGMA-sparse open source software package and managing lead of the Ginkgo math software library. Hartwig is the PI of Software Technology (ST) projects that are part of the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP), including a coordinated effort aimed at integrating low-precision functionality into high-accuracy simulation codes. He is also a PI in the EuroHPC Project MICROCARD.

Eric Nielsen - NASA Langley Research Center/Senior Research Scientist

Eric Nielsen is a Senior Research Scientist with the Computational AeroSciences Branch at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech and has worked at Langley for the past 30 years.

Mohammad Zubair - Old Dominion University/Professor

Zubair is a professor of computer science at Old Dominion University. His primary interest is performance and portability issues on high-performance emerging architectures for scientific computing and big data analytics. Zubair collaborates with NASA Langley, Intel, AMD, and Fermilab in porting and optimizing large scientific codes on emerging high-performance architectures. In the past, Zubair has worked as a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he focused on developing optimized implementations of scientific kernels.

Rafal Bielski - Codeplay/Senior Software Engineer

Rafal Bielski started his career as a particle physics researcher passionate about high-throughput processing of large datasets. His interests led him to working for 5 years as a C++ software developer at CERN, creating and optimising a real-time data processing framework for a dedicated computing farm in one of the Large Hadron Collider experiments. In 2023, Rafal has joined Codeplay Software where he employs his passion for high-performance computing to facilitate others in achieving the best performance in parallel processing with SYCL.

Sriram Ramkrishna - Intel/ oneAPI Community Manager

Sriram Ramkrishna is the community manager of oneAPI with over 20 years working in technical and open source communities ranging from application and user space communities to communities who work in kernel and near metal space. Today, Sri is focused on expanding and evolving the oneAPI community into a vibrant and active community that provides value and scope for innovation in the various fields that involve AI, HPC and beyond.

Russ Beutler - Intel/Engagement Manager

Russ Beutler is an Engagement Manager for oneAPI in the Developer Ecosystem Programs Team in the Intel Architecture Graphics and Software group. Previously he was the marketing manager for Intel® persistent memory and moderncode developer programs. He has over twenty-five years’ worldwide hardware and software marketing, consulting, and IT experience – twenty-one of which are at Intel.