IEEE World Technology Summit
AI INFRASTRUCTURE

November 12-14, 2024  •  San Jose Convention Center

2024 IEEE WTS Speaker Lineup

This year’s conference offers a roster of renowned speakers from a range of areas aimed at solutions to the requirements, challenges, and infrastructure needs of artificial intelligence.

Welcome and Overview – Nov. 13th (8:30 – 9:30 am)

AI Applications – Nov. 13th (9:30 am – 12:30 pm)

Silicon for AI – Nov. 13th (1:30 – 5:15 pm)

AI Systems Design – Nov. 14th (8:30 – 11:45 am)

Security and Standards for AI – Nov. 14th (1:00 – 5:45 pm)

Welcome and Overview - November 13

Michael Condry currently has a consulting firm on technology future directions in business with a recent focus on Artificial Intelligence technologies, applications, and associated infrastructure. He retired from Intel as its Chief Technology Officer for the Client Division. Michael’s career spans both academic and industry positions, mostly in industry. This includes senior leadership roles in Intel, Sun, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. At Intel, Michael was the Chief Technical Officer solving customer concerns and for issues. At Sun he led the development of UNIX standards as well as improving the processes for architecture engineering. At AT&T he was an architect for the BellMac 32 processor, leading software projects including a Real-Time Unix design and Unix System V file system. He held teaching and research positions at Princeton University and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. While at the University of Illinois, he served on (then Senator) Al Gore’s Internet committee. Michael has numerous patents and holds multiple roles in IEEE.

Tom Coughlin is a digital storage analyst and business/ technology consultant. He has over 40 years in the data storage industry with engineering and senior management positions. Coughlin Associates consults, publishes books and market and technology reports and puts on digital storage and memory-oriented events. He is a regular contributor for forbes.com and M&E organization websites. He is an IEEE Fellow, 2024 IEEE President, Past- President IEEE-USA, Past Director IEEE Region 6 and Past Chair Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section, and is also active with SNIA and SMPTE. For more information on Tom Coughlin go to www.tomcoughlin.com.

David Tennenhouse has a track record of driving innovation in multiple domains. He worked in academia, as a faculty member at MIT; in government, at DARPA and NSF; in industry at Intel, Amazon/A9.com, Microsoft and VMware; and as a partner in a venture capital firm.

At MIT, Dr. Tennenhouse led disruptive research related to software-based video, software radio and software-defined networks. In government and industry, he oversaw the strategic planning and execution of programs related to a wide range of technologies, including: data-intensive and cloud computing, AI/ML, semiconductors, networking, computer architecture, storage, digital assets and
nano/bio-technology.

David holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. In 2023, Dr Tennenhouse was awarded the National Academy of Engineering’s Arthur M. Bueche Award, in recognition of his pioneering new approaches to industry / government / academic collaboration, including an innovative open collaborative research model and multiple public-private partnerships.

AI Applications

Stoyan Nihtianov Stoyan Nihtianov (M’93-SM’98) received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1980 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 till 1995 he was an Associate professor at the Technical University in Sofia, teaching and researching in the field of smart sensors and sensor systems. From 1995 till 2000 he was with the Laboratory of Electronics, University of Technology – Delft, The Netherlands, where he was a senior research fellow engaged in the research and development of methods and electronic equipment for non-destructive testing. Since 2000 he has been with the high-tech company ASML, The Netherlands, in the position of a senior research fellow. Since 2003 he has also been a part-time professor in the Electronics Instrumentation lab of TU Delft, The Netherlands, leading a research group working on industrial electronic instrumentation. Stoyan Nihtianov has authored or co-authored three books and four book chapters, more than 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference scientific papers in the field of sensors and sensor interface electronics. He holds 24 patents. 

Yu Cao started his career as an algorithm engineer at KLA-Tencor from 1996 to 2000, where his contributions to the 300 and 500 series reticle inspection systems were recognized with three consecutive promotions. He joined Onetta in 2000, a venture-backed optical communications company, as software development manager.  Dr. Cao co-founded Brion in 2002, and architected the development of lithography modeling and simulation algorithms, a key enabler of Brion products. After the acquisition of Brion by ASML in 2007, Dr. Cao led the development of new product applications of computational lithography in the fab space. In 2011, he left ASML to co-found Founton Technologies, a company in the area of digital advertising, which was acquired by Alibaba in 2014. He then led the Silicon Valley team of Alibaba’s Institute of Data Science and Technologies. Dr. Cao returned to ASML in 2015 and took the position of Brion General Manager, before taking the role of HMI CEO in the beginning of 2020. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. He holds over 40 US patents. 

Dan Isaacs is General Manager and Chief Technology Officer of Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC™), where he is responsible for setting the technical direction for the Member Consortium, liaison partnerships and business development support for new memberships. Dan is also the Chief Strategy Officer for Object Management Group® (OMG®), where he develops and implements a comprehensive strategy to unify OMG consortia (AREA, CISQ, DTC, OMG Standards Development Organization, and Responsible Computing).

Previously, Dan was Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Xilinx where he was responsible for emerging technologies including AI/Machine Learning, including defining and executing the ecosystem strategy for the Industrial IoT. Prior to joining the Digital Twin Consortium, Dan was responsible for Automotive Business Development focused on Automated Driving and ADAS systems.

Dan represented Xilinx to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He has more than 25 years of experience working in automotive, Mil/Aerospace and consumer-based companies including Ford, NEC, LSI Logic and Hughes Aircraft.  

Ronjon Nag (SMIEEE) is a renowned inventor, entrepreneur, and educator, with over 40 years of experience in developing AI technologies for smartphones, neural networks, and biotechnology. He is the Founder and President of R42 Group, a family office and venture group that invests primarily in AI, biotechnology, and science, and supports pre-seed stage companies in their growth journey.

He is also an Adjunct Professor in Genetics in the Stanford School of Medicine and a Visiting Fellow at the Stanford Center for Language and Information (CSLI), where he teaches popular courses on AI, Genes, Ethics, Longevity Science, and Venture Capital. He is a Fellow and Trustee of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a Lifetime Member of the ACM. He has won multiple prestigious awards, including the IET Mountbatten Medal, the Verizon Powerful Answers Award, the COGX AI Lifetime Achievement Award, the MIT Great Dome Award and is the 2024 Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame Inductee. He is a founder, advisor, board member, and part owner of some 100 AI and Biotech start-ups, and has sold his companies to Apple, BlackBerry, and Motorola. He is passionate about inventing, informing, and investing in the future of humanity. He has a BSc (Birmingham), an MS (MIT), and a PhD (Cambridge). 

Venkat Thanvantri is Corporate VP of R&D at Cadence where he leads AI/ML development. Venkat holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida and a Master’s from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has over 20 years of experience in developing, managing, and deploying multiple EDA tools in the areas of timing, extraction, characterization, power, and place & route.  

Jürgen Weichenberger has 20 years of experience in building complex solutions leveraging advanced analytics, data science, database design, architecture and other cutting-edge technologies.

Working in the AI industry since the mid-1990s, Juergen has built solutions for various industries and leveraged various methods over time.

He joined Schneider Electric in 2022 as Vice President AI New Value Stream. His focus is to produce industry grade solutions, translating the combination of core algorithms, robotic, cybernetics and human intelligence. Previously, he worked as Senior Data Science Executive in Accenture and held various roles related to AI and data.

He holds a PhD degree in Business intelligence and new marketing methods from The Philipp University of Marburg, MBA in Executive General Management and MA in Applied Computer, bioinformatics and cybernetic from Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg.  

Silicon for AI

Frank Schirrmeister is Executive Director, Strategic Programs, System Solutions in Synopsys’ System Design Group. He leads strategic activities across system software and hardware assisted development for industries like automotive, data center and 5G/6G communications, as well as for horizontals like Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning. Prior to Synopsys, Frank held various senior leadership positions at Arteris, Cadence Design Systems, Imperas, Chipvision, and SICAN Microelectronics, focusing on product marketing and management, solutions, strategic ecosystem partner initiatives, and customer engagement. He holds an MSEE from the Technical University of Berlin and actively participates in cross-industry initiatives as Chair of the Design Automation Conference’s Engineering Tracks.

Zane A. Ball is a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Platform Engineering & Architecture (DPEA) Group. DPEA owns end-to-end engineering for Intel’s data center business and is responsible for designing and validating the latest data center platforms and enabling Intel’s customers to ramp and deploy platforms at scale.

Prior to his data center role, Ball was Co-GM of Intel’s foundry effort as a VP in the Technology and Manufacturing group. Ball has also served as a VP of the Client Computing Group including roles as GM of the desktop client business and as GM of global customer engineering.

Ball has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all earned from Rice University.  He also holds six patents in high-speed electrical design.  

Huiming Bu is responsible for IBM global Semiconductor R&D strategy across world-wide labs. He oversees R&D activities in advanced logic, chiplet and advanced packaging, emerging memory and analog AI hardware at IBM Research. In addition to leading semiconductor technology R&D agenda, Huiming is also responsible for IBM Research Albany Lab site and fab operations.

Huiming has ~20 years of professional experience in semiconductor technology R&D at IBM after he received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University. Huiming has authored/co-authored 100+ technical publications and holds 100+ patents in semiconductor domain.

Huiming started his technical career at IBM on High-κ/Metal Gate project and then led SOI FinFET research and early development for IBM’s 14nm node technology. After that, Huiming and his team delivered 10nm/7nm technology R&D for IBM and its Joint Development Alliance (JDA) partners. They are now working on 2nm development and 1nm & beyond pathfinding R&D. Recently, as IBM formed Semiconductors division under IBM Research, the footprint has expanded from advanced logic to chiplet & advanced packaging, intelligent fab, cloud based EDA and design.  

Sandeep Giri has primarily focused on launching a wide variety of products (supercomputers, ballooning, batteries, wearables, displays, solar). This has entailed developing & scaling emerging technologies from concept to design to operations. He has repeatedly enabled new   product introduction via execution through all phases of product life cycle.

Giri has first-hand experience solving audacious engineering problems in multiple industries: consumer electronics, MEMS, micro-electronics, solar, high-precision optics, communications systems, imaging systems, automation, carbon fiber, flat panel displays, vacuum deposition technologies, and semiconductors.

He has direct industry experience by living & working in multiple cultures: US, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein. He has built teams from scratch in two different companies and two different countries. He directly & dotted-line managed small to mid-size teams as Manager, Project Lead, Technical Lead, and Individual Contributor. He also built and managed partner relationships in the US, Asia, and Europe.  

Vincent (WooPoung) Kim is the Corporate EVP, Head of Packaging at Samsung Device Solutions Research America based in San Jose, California. Dr. Kim is responsible for leading the packaging division at Samsung Device Solutions Research America, dedicated to meeting industry needs for advanced chip packaging in high-performance systems. Prior to joining Samsung, he served as a System Architect for Signal Integrity and Power Integrity at Apple, where he played a crucial role in developing consumer computers. Before his tenure at Apple, Dr. Kim worked as an SI Manager in Snapdragon packaging at Qualcomm. Prior to that, he was a Co-Design Engineer in the Wireless Business Unit of Texas Instruments, where he specialized in optimizing the electrical design of OMAP packages and systems. Dr. Kim also gained valuable experience as an SI Engineer at Rambus, where he designed and analyzed memory systems.Dr. Kim received his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Georgia Tech in 2004, and his M.S. & B.A. degrees from KAIST, Korea in 1999 and 1997.

Alex Starr  is an AMD Corporate Fellow and an industry leader in hardware emulation, design verification and hardware-software validation.

He introduced the mainstream usage of hardware emulation to all AMD products and his innovations have enabled AMD to continue executing on its technology roadmap and enhance its competitive position within the industry. Alex is responsible for AMD’s corporate Shift Left Initiative and Verification Strategy, with a goal of accelerating AMD’s silicon bring-up, improving design quality and reducing time to market.

He leads teams dedicated to facilitating company-wide advancements in Hardware Emulation, FPGA Prototyping, Virtual Platform modeling and the implementation of AI for accelerated design and verification. 

Vojin Zivojnovic is co-founder and CEO of AGGIOS, the leading independent supplier of power/thermal management software and tools to the electronics industry. Prior to starting AGGIOS in 2010 he was ARM’s Vice President responsible for ARM’s key technical and business relationships with OEMs, like Apple and Nokia, and foundries, like TSMC and Global Foundries. In 1997 Vojin co-founded AXYS Design Automation (Irvine, CA), the pioneer in multicore system design methodology, and served as AXYS Design’s CEO until the acquisition by ARM in 2004. Prior to AXYS Design he led simulation and modeling efforts at Rockwell Semiconductors (Newport Beach, CA). Vojin received his Ph.D. in computer science from Aachen University of Technology in Germany and has published over 60 research papers in statistical signal processing, DSPs, design methodology and embedded software.

AI Systems Design

Steve Jordan is President of Jordan Consulting Group, focusing on strategic consulting for technology companies and venture funded startups. He serves as an elected Director of Purissima Hills Water District (PHWD), and as a Director of the Bay Area Water Conservation and Supply Agency (BAWSCA). He also serves as Chairman of the IEEE Power and Energy Society chapter in Santa Clara Valley, where he organized several highly successful power and AI data center seminars. He led PHWD’s early adoption of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (aka Smart Meters), as well as acoustic leak detection equipment, which have helped reduce water usage over 20%. Previously he led WaterCity, Inc. which installed on-site water recycling systems for heavy commercial water users. He was VP of Engineering at Poqet Computer where he led the design and introduction of the first DOS- compatible handheld PC. He previously served in management roles at Fairchild Semiconductor Co., Daisy Systems and Mostek, an early semiconductor memory innovator. He consulted for technology businesses for over 25 years, with a focus on developing successful growth strategies for both Fortune 100 companies and venture funded startups. He was a Partner with R. B. Webber and Co. (RBW), a leading Silicon Valley technology strategy management consulting firm, and previously consulted with McKinsey and Co. in its technology practice. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Economics at MIT, and an MBA at Harvard Business School.

Jessica Bian is a visionary leader and architect who has spearheaded electric power industry’s reliability metrics and grid risk assessment. She is the Vice President of Grid Services at Grid-X Partners.  Before that, she was with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Washington, DC. Previously, she was the Director of Performance Analysis at North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Under her leadership, a total of 18 industry-wide reliability indicators were established to determine grid reliability, adequacy, and associated risks.  She is widely recognized as a pioneer and trusted world leader in the field.  She serves as the 2024 Chair of IEEE Industry Engagement Committee and was the 2022-2023 President of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES).

Matt Davidsaver is a product line owner for GE Vernova.  He has worked in engineering, executive, and product management roles with gas power for almost 15 years after service and engineering roles in nuclear energy for the prior 10 years.  Working with power plant owners, developers, carbon capture technology partners, and CO2 transportation and storage providers he positions GE Vernova Gas Turbines for novel plant integrations by using his wide experience in the energy and oil and gas industries. 

Paolo Faraboschi is a Vice President and HPE Fellow and directs the AI Research Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. Paolo has been at HP/HPE for longer than he would like to admit, and worked on a broad range of technologies, from embedded printer processors to exascale supercomputers. He previously led exascale computing research (2017-2020), and the hardware architecture of “The Machine” project (2014-2016), pioneered low-energy servers with HP’s project Moonshot (2010-2014), drove scalable system-level simulation research (2004-2009), and was the principal architect of a family of embedded VLIW cores (1994-2003), widely used in video SoCs and HP’s printers. Paolo is an IEEE Fellow (2014) for “contributions to embedded processor architecture and system-on-chip technology”, author of 70+ granted patents, 100+ publications, and the book “Embedded Computing: a VLIW approach”. He received a Ph.D. in microelectronics from the University of Genoa, Italy.  

Ali Heydari is a Distinguished Engineer and Data Center Technologist at Nvidia in charge of all data center cooling technology development at Nvidia. He has 20+ years of experience in the design and deployment of high-performance servers and DCs, including some of the largest in existence, involving hardware, software, infrastructure, efficiency, reliability, manufacturing, and deployment. He has extensive experience with customized high-performance systems as well as the deployment of energy efficiency measures in low, medium, and high-volume operations.  

Peter A. Panfil is the Vice President of Global Power at Vertiv, where he leads strategic customer development for the Vertiv power business. He is skilled at solving customer challenges with the latest power and control technologies, delivering availability, scalability, and efficiency levels to meet diverse customer and sustainability needs. Approaching 30 years in the critical infrastructure space, he has held executive positions including VP Engineering and VP/GM AC Power prior to his current responsibilities. He is a frequent presenter and spokesperson for industry trade shows, conferences and media outlets serving the IT, facilities and engineering industries. 

Security and Standards for AI

David M. Snyder is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), California registered Civil Engineer (PE) and IEEE Senior Member. David’s experience includes Apple, Google, Kaiser Permanente, PayPal, Yahoo!, and various startups for healthcare systems, electronic payments, mobile applications, and data security. His cybersecurity career started in e-commerce about 25 years ago. Earlier, he was an environmental engineer and before that a Certified Respiratory Therapy Technician working in hospital Intensive Care Units. David is on the Board of the IEEE Consultants Network of Silicon Valley, a past board member of the Northern California Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), and has been the organizer, moderator, or speaker for more than 20 conferences and seminars on healthcare, data security, and payments topics, including Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems, and a panel on Communications, Computing, and Power during Disaster Response at the 2022 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference.

Jaya Baloo is the CSO of Rapid7 and has been working in the field of information security with a focus on secure network architecture for over 20 years. She is the former CISO of Avast, and prior to that was CISO at KPN, the largest telecommunications carrier in the Netherlands. Jaya serves on boards of the NL’s National Cyber Security Centre, TIIN Capital, the NOS, and was the former Vice Chair of the EU Quantum flagship. She is also on the faculty at Singularity University. Jaya is recognized as a top 100 global CISO and ranks among the top 100 security influencers worldwide. In 2019, she was selected as one of the 50 most inspiring women in the Netherlands by Inspiring Fifty. In 2022 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Twente for her contributions to the field of Cybersecurity.

Brandie Nonnecke, PhD, is Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) where she directs the Tech Policy Initiative, a collaboration between CITRIS and GSPP to strengthen tech policy education, research, and impact. Brandie is the Director of Our Better Web, a program that supports empirical research, policy analysis, training, and engagement to address the sharp rise of online harms. She is a co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Berkeley Law where she leads the Project on Artificial Intelligence, Platforms, and Society. She also co-directs the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub,  an interdisciplinary initiative training researchers to develop effective AI governance and policy frameworks.

Brandie is the host of TecHype, a groundbreaking video and audio series that debunks misunderstandings around emerging technologies and explores effective technical and policy strategies to harness emerging technologies for good.

Brandie served as a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She also completed fellowships at the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum,  Aspen Institute’s Tech Policy Hub, and the World Economic Forum.

Her research has been published in Science, Wired, Telecommunications Policy, the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, among other outlets. Her work has been cited by the FTC, NIST, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as in the Washington Post, BBC, NPR, among other venues. Brandie was named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2021. 

Walden “Wally” C. Rhines is President and CEO of Cornami, Inc.  Previously, he was CEO of Mentor Graphics for 25 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group, responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, he was President of the Data Systems Group, held numerous semiconductor executive management positions and was directly responsible for the creation and growth of the digital signal processing business which eventually comprised about 50% of TI’s total revenue.

He has served on the board of directors for Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic, PTK Corp., SRC and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms). He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.

Dr. Rhines holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.  

David Sanker is a Mathematician, a Software Engineer, and a Patent Attorney.  David earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Berkeley, and returned to Berkeley 15 years later for his law degree after careers in academia and production software development.  As a Patent Attorney at Morgan Lewis, David was a patent litigator for four years and a patent practitioner for more than 13 years.  As a patent practitioner, David works with clients, inventors, the U.S. Patent Office, and associates throughout the world to build strong IP protection.  This has included a lot of work with AI, and David continues to speak and write about AI.  David also has an entrepreneurial spirit, launching his own small patent firm SankerIP in February 2024.  In this way, David is able to provide high-quality work without the very high billing rates of large law firms.  David’s recent chapter on “Practical guidelines for the use of generative AI” appears in the book AI, Machine Learning & Big Data Laws and Regulations 2024 published by GLI, and is available at https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/ai-machine-learning-and-big-data-laws-and-regulations/practical-guidelines-for-the-use-of-generative-ai/.  

Omar Santos is a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) security, cybersecurity research, incident response, and vulnerability disclosure. He is a board member of the OASIS Open standards organization and the founder of OpenEoX. Omar’s collaborative efforts extend to numerous organizations, including the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) and the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI). Omar is the co-chair of the FIRST PSIRT Special Interest Group (SIG). Omar is the lead of the DEF CON Red Team Village and the chair of the Common Security Advisory Framework (CSAF) technical committee.

Omar is the author of over 25 books, 21 video courses, and over 50 academic research papers. Omar is a renowned expert in ethical hacking, vulnerability research, incident response, and AI security. He employs his deep understanding of these disciplines to help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats. His dedication to cybersecurity has made a significant impact on technology standards, businesses, academic institutions, government agencies, and other entities striving to improve their cybersecurity programs. Prior to Cisco, Omar served in the United States Marines focusing on the deployment, testing, and maintenance of Command, Control, Communications, Computer and Intelligence (C4I) systems.  

Richard Tong is a leading advocate for standardization and AI R&D collaboration between academia and industry. He is the current Chair of the IEEE Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee. Besides the IEEE AISC chair role, he is also the chair of IEEE 3394 LLM Agent Interface Standard Working Group. In 2024, he co-chaired the Education Vertical Track of 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Singapore in June. (https://ieeecai.org/2024/verticals/) He also serves as the industry, innovation and practitioner track co-chair of AIED 2024 Conference in Brazil in July.

Richard is also recognized for AI/ML developments in education and agent-based technology. He led the architecture effort for the Squirrel Ai adaptive learning platform serving over 16 million students. His research covers neuro-symbolic cognitive architecture, human-in-the-loop AI, trustworthy AI, self-improving agents, and multimodal reasoning. He is the main researcher of NEOLAF agent framework and the creator of the OLAF adaptive instructional system stack.  

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