Keynotes

The keynote schedule is being finalized. Additional keynote details will be posted here as they are confirmed.

Vishal Misra

Columbia University

Keynote title and abstract forthcoming

Bio: Vishal Misra is the RKS Family Professor of Computer Science and the Vice Dean for Computing and AI in the School of Engineering at Columbia University. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow and his research emphasis is on mathematical modeling of systems, bridging the gap between practice and analysis. As a graduate student, he co-founded CricInfo, which was acquired by ESPN in 2007. In 2021 he developed one of the world's first commercial applications built on top of GPT-3 for ESPNCricinfo, and has since been modeling the behavior of LLMs. He also played an active part in the Net Neutrality regulation process in India, where his definition of Net Neutrality was adopted both by the citizen's movement as well as the regulators. He has been awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT Bombay (2019) and a Distinguished Young Alumnus Award by the UMass Amherst College of Engineering (2014).

Steve Teig

Amazon

Keynote title and abstract forthcoming

Bio: Steve Teig is an American technology executive, entrepreneur, and computer engineer. He earned a B.S.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1982, co-founded Simplex in 1998, later served as chief scientist at Cadence after its acquisition, and went on to co-found Tabula as CTO. He subsequently served as CTO of Tessera Technologies, which became Xperi, and then became CEO of Perceive, a semiconductor company focused on machine learning hardware for mobile devices. After Amazon acquired Perceive in 2024, he became a Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon. He is also known for holding more than 390 patents.

Additional keynote speakers may be announced as the program is finalized.