Josep Torrellas
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Josep Torrellas is the Saburo Muroga Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is the Director of the Center for Programmable Extreme Scale Computing, and past Director of the Illinois-Intel Parallelism Center (I2PC). He is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS. He received the IEEE CS 2015 Technical Achievement Award, the 2017 UIUC Campus Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, and was a Willett Faculty Scholar at UIUC. He is a member of the CRA Board of Directors, the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS), the U.S. Board on Army Research and Development, and was a previous Council Member of CCC.
Tomer Morad
Concertio Optimizer
Dr. Tomer Y. Morad is the co-founder and CEO of Concertio, a provider of AI-powered performance optimization tools. Tomer co-founded Concertio while being a postdoc at the Runway program of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute of Cornell Tech. Prior to Concertio, Tomer co-founded transSpot, a provider of systems for digital signage and public transportation. Tomer held senior positions in the industry, including CEO of transSpot, Chief Security Officer and Engineering Manager at Horizon Semiconductors, and a technical team leader at an intelligence unit in the Israel Defense Forces. Tomer earned his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology in 2001, 2005 and 2015 respectively. His Ph.D. research was about energy-efficient system resource allocation, and it was conducted at the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Computational Intelligence (ICRI-CI) at the Technion.
Andrea Pellegrini
ARM
Andrea is a Senior Principal Engineer at Arm, where he currently leads the performance and workloads team for servers and networking. Andrea obtained a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Xiaoming Gu
Alibaba
Xiaoming Gu joined Alibaba JVM team as a Staff Engineer in early 2019. His current focus is Graal. His first experience on JVM internals was Apache Harmony back in 2008. Xiaoming spent more than 4 years on C2 JIT compiler when he was in Azul Systems. Before joining Alibaba, he worked on Apex runtime in Salesforce. He got his Ph.D. from University of Rochester.
Mei-Chin Tsai
Microsoft
Mei-Chin Tsai is a Group Principal Engineer Manager at Microsoft, responsible for .NET Languages and .NET Runtimes. She currently leads the charge to continuously evolve the .NET Runtime to handle modern workloads. Mei-Chin graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. She joined Microsoft in 1994 and was one of the original developers on .NET. She is passionate about scalability and performance.
Suresh Srinivas
Intel
Suresh Srinivas is a Principal Engineer at Intel focused on Runtimes. He has a PhD in Computer Science and 25 years of Industry Experience developing JITs, HW/SW codesign, and . He is also a Yoga and Meditation teacher. Outside of work he volunteers in the community and enjoys hiking the Pacific Northwest with his dog.