{"id":1079,"date":"2020-07-09T19:01:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pearc.acm.org\/pearc20\/?page_id=1079"},"modified":"2020-07-24T20:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T20:33:47","slug":"speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pearc.acm.org\/pearc20\/speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Cherri Pancake, Ph.D.<\/span><\/h2>

Past President of the Association for\u00a0\u00a0
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Can We Change the Face of Computing?<\/span><\/strong><\/h3><\/div>
The computing field has earned a bad reputation for its lack of <\/span>diversity. That\u2019s a very serious problem, and not just in terms of <\/span>equity or social justice. When the workplace is too homogeneous, a <\/span>company or institution is constraining its potential for future <\/span>innovation and growth. Even worse, computing’s inhospitable culture is <\/span>discouraging the very people who could bring the new perspectives that <\/span>are so badly needed. I hope to convince you that each of us should <\/span>take personal responsibility for changing the “culture of technology” <\/span>before our field slowly strangles itself.<\/span><\/div>
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To change a culture, it\u2019s important to understand how group behavior <\/span>and values evolve and be realistic about how they can be influenced. <\/span>My talk will focus on lessons I have learned about cultural change, <\/span>first as an anthropologist and then working my way into and through a <\/span>field that is overwhelmingly dominated by white male thinking. I’ll <\/span>suggest a number of practical actions we can take, in our everyday <\/span>roles and at any stage in our careers, to become an “agent of change”\u00a0 <\/span>for our profession.<\/span><\/div>
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Biography<\/span><\/strong><\/div>
Dr. Cherri M. Pancake is the past President of the Association for <\/span>Computing Machinery (ACM.org) and Director of the Northwest Alliance <\/span>for Computational Research. She recently retired as Professor of <\/span>Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Intel Faculty Fellow at <\/span>Oregon State University. Her background combines environmental design <\/span>and anthropology with computer engineering.<\/span><\/div>
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Pancake conducted much of the seminal work identifying how the needs <\/span>of scientists differ from computer science and business communities. <\/span>Over a period of 25 years, she served as PI or coPI on research grants <\/span>totaling over $160 million from industry, not-for-profits, NSF, and US <\/span>Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, and <\/span>Interior. The user-centered design methods she developed were <\/span>reflected in software products from Hewlett Packard, Convex, Intel, <\/span>IBM, and Tektronix. Her current research focus is software systems to <\/span>help resource managers access and analyze complex research data more <\/span>effectively so their decisions can be science-based. A Fellow of ACM <\/span>and IEEE, Pancake was the founding chair of SIGHPC, ACM\u2019s Special <\/span>Interest Group on High Performance Computing.<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pranav Mehta<\/span><\/h2>

Intel

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Pandemic Accelerates the Scale Out<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>

The current pandemic has accelerated the need for scientific and technological advances in certain end user visible applications and underlying cyberinfrastructures to support them. This talk will look at some of these vertical use cases and outline challenges and possible solution approaches, based on our internal and collaborative research results, to satisfy the critical societal needs.<\/span><\/p>


Biography
<\/span><\/strong>Pranav H. Mehta is a vice president in Intel Labs and director of Systems and Software Research at Intel Corporation. The Systems and Software Research lab explores emerging usage models and workloads \u2013 like artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, ambient computing, visual cloud, cloudification of the network infrastructure, and more \u2013 that will accelerate the compute and communications ecosystems. The goal of the lab is to comprehend their implications on the underlying system software layers as well as Intel platforms to ensure they are best optimized to create most satisfying end user experiences.<\/span><\/p>

Prior to joining Intel Labs in 2015, Mehta was part of Intel\u2019s Embedded and Network Infrastructure businesses for more than two decades, starting as a silicon architect, gradually moving to system architecture, and eventually as the chief technology officer for almost a decade. In that role, he conceived and successfully drove the workload consolidation strategy to run disparate network infrastructure workloads optimally on standard high-volume server platforms based on Intel Architecture\u00ae to transform the telecommunications industry. As Intel\u2019s chief Network Function Virtualization (NFV) architect, he was one of the founding members of the Open Platform for NFV, an open source project under Linux Foundation and the first ever open source initiative for the Telecommunications industry with global participation. Mehta joined Intel in 1988 as a software engineer in Intel\u2019s fabrication facility.<\/span><\/p>

Mehta holds six U.S. patents and has one pending.<\/span><\/p>

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Luke Wilson<\/span><\/h2>

Dell

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HPC Gives Computers a Voice<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>

The dream of having a conversation with your computer is fast becoming a reality. But how are these voices produced? Neural networks have transformed voice synthesis, replacing artificial sounding voice clips with smooth, natural voices generated entirely by computer. Scale-out parallelism and acceleration are driving down the time to create these voice models from months to hours, turning the dream of conversational computers into a reality even faster.<\/span><\/p>


Biography
<\/span><\/strong>Luke Wilson is Chief Data Scientist of the HPC & AI Innovation lab at Dell Technologies. Since joining Dell Technologies in 2017 Luke has helped build the HPC & AI Innovation Lab into Dell Technologies\u2019 premier R&D group in scalable artificial intelligence. Luke leads the engineering and design of Dell EMC\u2019s AI Solutions, works with customers and partners to develop state-of-the-art AI models and new techniques for reducing time-to-value of AI projects, and publishes peer-reviewed research in international conferences and journals.<\/span><\/p>

Before joining Dell Technologies in 2017, Luke spent twelve years at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) developing next-generation artificial intelligence-based techniques for performing parallel computations on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. While at TACC he managed multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) research projects developing cutting-edge distributed computing infrastructure tools.<\/span><\/p>

Luke\u2019s other professional experience includes being a Lecturer of scientific computing and data science at the University of Texas at Austin and receiving the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher Award for excellence and vision in dissertation research. Luke earned his Ph.D. in computer science from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2015 and has two decades of experience in high performance computing and artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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PEARC20 Panel: Introduction of the new NSF Innovative HPC systems<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>

Continuing to provide a comprehensive portfolio of innovative advanced computing resources to meet the evolving needs of the nation\u2019s science and engineering communities, NSF announced in May the latest round of awards for five new systems to be deployed and in production during 2020 – 2021. These systems will be available to U.S. researchers via XSEDE’s resource allocations process.<\/span><\/span><\/p>

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These new systems are results of the NSF solicitation 19-587 for \u201cAdvanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research\u201d, featuring two tracks:<\/span><\/p>