11:05 – 11:25
M. Ashkan Seyedi, Ph.D.
NVIDIA
Ashkan Seyedi received a dual bachelor’s in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Ph.D. from University of Southern California working on photonic crystal devices, high-speed nanowire photodetectors, efficient white LEDs, and solar cells. With a decade of industry experience at Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and now NVidia, Dr. Seyedi has been working on developing high-bandwidth, efficient optical interconnects for exascale, and high-performance computing applications.
NVIDIA
Company Profile
Since its founding in 1993, NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of modern AI and is fueling the creation of the metaverse. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry.
