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David Kanter

Founder, board member and Head of MLPerf at MLCommons; co-author of the MLPerf benchmark papers

  • Founder, board member and Head of MLPerf, MLCommons1

David Kanter is a founder, board member and the Head of MLPerf at MLCommons, where Kanter helps lead the MLPerf benchmarks for measuring machine learning system performance. Kanter has more than 16 years of experience in semiconductors, computing and machine learning, and co-authored the original MLPerf Training and Inference benchmark papers.123

Career

Kanter founded a microprocessor and compiler startup, was an early employee at Aster Data Systems, and has consulted for semiconductor and computing companies including Intel, NVIDIA, KLA, Applied Materials, Qualcomm and Microsoft. MLCommons lists Kanter as one of its founders and a member of its board.1

Benchmarks

As Head of MLPerf, Kanter helps lead the MLCommons benchmark suites. Kanter is a co-author of the 2019 MLPerf Training Benchmark paper and of the MLPerf Inference Benchmark paper, which describe how the suites measure training and inference performance across hardware and software systems.123

Work

Career timeline

  1. Oct 2, 2019

    Co-authored the MLPerf Training Benchmark paper.2

  2. Nov 6, 2019

    Co-authored the MLPerf Inference Benchmark paper.3

Other documented roles

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  • Early employee, Aster Data Systems1

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References · reviewed Oct 21, 2026

  1. 1.
    MLCommons leadership team (external site: mlcommons.org)

    MLCommons · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 21, 2026

  2. 2.
    MLPerf Training Benchmark (arXiv 1910.01500) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Oct 2, 2019 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 21, 2026

  3. 3.
    MLPerf Inference Benchmark (arXiv 1911.02549) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Nov 6, 2019 · accessed Oct 21, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 21, 2026

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