People
People in chips and hardware
76 people in the USASI People directory whose profiles list chips and hardware as a field of their work. Listed alphabetically; this is not a ranking. Each profile covers public professional work only, cited to official pages.
Aaron Teo
Technology Engineer, IBM Client Engineering, IBM
IBM technology engineer and code owner for llama.cpp's zDNN backend for IBM Z and LinuxONE
Andrew Bosworth
Chief Technology Officer; Head of Reality Labs, Meta
Chief Technology Officer of Meta and head of Reality Labs; leads Meta's Agent Transformation Accelerator
Andrew Feldman
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Cerebras Systems
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cerebras Systems; earlier co-founder and CEO of SeaMicro
Andrew Waterman
Co-founder and Chief Engineer, SiFive
Co-founder and Chief Engineer of SiFive; co-creator of the RISC-V instruction set architecture
Andy Bechtolsheim
Co-founder and Chief Architect, Arista Networks
Co-founder and Chief Architect of Arista Networks; co-founder of Sun Microsystems
Antonio Neri
President and CEO (since February 2018); director since 2018, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
President and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since February 2018, after more than two decades at HP
Arvind Raman
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and 18th Director of NIST
Austin Evans
Host, Austin Evans
Host of the Austin Evans YouTube channel on gaming PCs, smartphones and gadgets
Azalia Mirhoseini
Assistant Professor of Computer Science; directs the Scaling Intelligence lab, Stanford University
Stanford assistant professor directing Scaling Intelligence; co-founder of Ricursive Intelligence
Bill Dally
Chief scientist and senior vice president of NVIDIA Research, NVIDIA
Chief scientist and SVP of Research at NVIDIA; co-author of Deep Compression; former Stanford CS chair
Charles Liang
Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board (since 1993), Supermicro
Founder, President, CEO and Chairman of Supermicro, maker of AI and data center server systems
Charlie B. Kawwas
President, Semiconductor Solutions Group, Broadcom
President of Broadcom's Semiconductor Solutions Group since July 2022
Chase Lochmiller
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Crusoe
Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Crusoe, which builds AI data centers and the Crusoe Cloud platform
Chuck Robbins
Chair and Chief Executive Officer (CEO since July 2015; Chair since December 2017), Cisco
Chair and CEO of Cisco since 2015, leading its shift toward AI infrastructure, security and software
Cristiano Amon
President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO since June 30, 2021), Qualcomm
President and CEO of Qualcomm since June 2021; joined the company as an engineer in 1995
Cully Cavness
Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Crusoe
Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Crusoe, the AI infrastructure and cloud company
Daniel Gross
Co-Lead, Meta Compute, Meta
Co-Lead of Meta Compute; co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc. and of the search engine Cue
Darío Gil
Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy; former IBM SVP and Director of Research
Darius Bunandar
Founder, Chief Scientist and board member, Lightmatter
Founder and Chief Scientist of Lightmatter; co-author of a 2025 Nature paper on photonic AI acceleration
David Kanter
Founder, board member and Head of MLPerf, MLCommons
Founder, board member and Head of MLPerf at MLCommons; co-author of the MLPerf benchmark papers
David Patterson
Google Fellow, Google
Google Fellow and UC Berkeley professor emeritus; co-author of Google TPU papers and MLPerf Training
Dylan Patel
Author of the SemiAnalysis newsletter, SemiAnalysis
Author of the SemiAnalysis newsletter on the semiconductor and AI supply chain
Emily Webber
Principal machine learning specialist solutions architect, AWS Trainium team, Amazon Web Services
Principal ML specialist solutions architect on the AWS Trainium team at Annapurna Labs; author
Fidelma M. Russo
Executive Vice President, General Manager of Hybrid Cloud and Chief Technology Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Executive Vice President, General Manager of Hybrid Cloud and Chief Technology Officer of HPE
Gavin Uberti
Co-founder and CEO, Etched
Co-founder and CEO of Etched, which builds inference chips and racks; former Apache TVM contributor
George Hotz
Founder, tiny corp
Creator of the open-source tinygrad deep learning framework and founder of tiny corp and comma.ai
Hani Jamjoom
Listed with IBM Research on the 2025 GPU confidential computing paper and with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on a 2026 arXiv paper, IBM Research
Systems security researcher listed with IBM Research; co-author of confidential-computing studies for AI
Hock E. Tan
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Broadcom
President and CEO of Broadcom since March 2006; previously President and CEO of Integrated Circuit Systems
Ian Buck
Vice President of Hyperscale and High-Performance Computing, NVIDIA
Vice president of hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA; described by NVIDIA as the inventor of CUDA
Jayshree Ullal
Chief Executive Officer (founding CEO since 2008) and Chairperson, Arista Networks
Founding CEO and Chairperson of Arista Networks; former Cisco senior vice president
Jeff Bolz
Distinguished Engineer, NVIDIA
NVIDIA Distinguished Engineer and member of llama.cpp's Vulkan backend code-owner team
Jeff Clarke
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Dell Technologies
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Dell Technologies, leading planning for AI
Jeff Geerling
Owner/President, Midwestern Mac, LLC
Developer, author, and YouTube creator covering Linux, Raspberry Pi, Ansible, and open-source infrastructure
Jeff Johnson
Research Scientist, SysML group, Fundamental AI Research (FAIR), Meta
Meta FAIR research scientist; implemented the GPU version of the Faiss similarity search library
Johannes Gäßler
Experimental particle physicist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Member of llama.cpp's CUDA backend code-owner team; experimental particle physicist at KIT
Johny Srouji
Chief Hardware Officer, Apple
Apple's chief hardware officer, overseeing Apple silicon and the company's hardware technologies
Jonathan Ross
Founder; CEO and Founder in 2024 and 2025 announcements, Groq
Founder and former CEO of Groq, maker of the LPU inference chip and the GroqCloud platform
Krste Asanović
Co-founder and Chief Architect, SiFive
Co-founder and Chief Architect of SiFive; RISC-V co-creator and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus
Kunle Olukotun
Co-founder and Chief Technologist, SambaNova
Co-founder and Chief Technologist of SambaNova; Cadence Design Professor at Stanford University
Laura McGill
Laboratories Director (since May 1, 2025), Sandia National Laboratories
Laboratories Director of Sandia National Laboratories since May 2025; systems engineer and NAE member
Linus Sebastian
Co-host of The WAN Show, Linus Media Group
Co-host of The WAN Show, Linus Media Group's weekly tech news and analysis podcast
Manish Bhatia
President and Chief Operating Officer, Micron Technology
President and Chief Operating Officer of Micron Technology, overseeing business units and operations
Mark Gurman
Managing editor for Global Consumer Technology and chief correspondent on Apple, Bloomberg
Bloomberg managing editor for Global Consumer Technology; writes Power On and hosts its podcast
Marques Brownlee
Creator and host, MKBHD
Creator of the MKBHD YouTube channel and co-host of the Waveform tech podcast
Matt Murphy
Chairman and CEO (CEO since July 2016; Chair since 2023), Marvell Technology
Chairman and CEO of Marvell Technology; CEO since 2016 after 22 years at Maxim Integrated
Max Krasnyansky
Member of the Hexagon and OpenCL backend code-owner teams, llama.cpp project
Author of llama.cpp's Hexagon NPU backend; member of its Hexagon and OpenCL code-owner teams
Michael Balaban
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Lambda
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Lambda; author of Lambda's GPU deep learning benchmarks
Michael Carbin
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Head, Programming Systems Group (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor heading the Programming Systems Group; co-author of the lottery ticket hypothesis
Michael Dell
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dell Technologies
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
Michael Fisher
Creator and reviewer, MrMobile
Creator of MrMobile, a YouTube channel of mobile technology reviews
Mitesh Agrawal
Head of Cloud, Lambda
Lambda's Head of Cloud in 2023–2024 posts; introduced Lambda 1-Click Clusters of NVIDIA H100 GPUs
Natalia Gimelshein
Core Maintainer, PyTorch
PyTorch core maintainer for CUDA; co-author of the PyTorch and PyTorch 2 papers
Naveen Rao
CEO and cofounder, Unconventional AI
CEO and cofounder of Unconventional AI; founder of Nervana Systems and MosaicML; former Databricks VP of AI
Neo Zhang
Code owner for the SYCL backend (ggml-org/ggml-sycl), llama.cpp project
Code owner for llama.cpp's SYCL backend, which is designed primarily for Intel GPUs
Nicholas Harris
Founder and CEO, Lightmatter
Founder and CEO of Lightmatter, which builds photonic interconnects for AI infrastructure
Nicholas Paine
Co-founder and CTO, Apptronik
Co-founder and CTO of Apptronik; worked on actuators for NASA's Valkyrie humanoid robot
Nikita Shulga
Listed with Thinking Machines Lab as a panelist for the PyTorch 2.14 release Q&A (September 2026), Thinking Machines Lab
PyTorch core maintainer for the Apple MPS/Metal backend and for PyTorch's build and CI
Piotr Bialecki
Manages the PyTorch team at NVIDIA (joined the team in 2019), NVIDIA
PyTorch core maintainer who manages NVIDIA's PyTorch team and its work on the CUDA backend
Quinn Nelson
Leads the channel and studio, Snazzy Labs Media
Leads Snazzy Labs, an independent technology video channel about Apple, smart homes, and networking
Robert Wachen
Co-founder and President, Etched
Co-founder and President of Etched, which builds inference hardware for AI models
Rodrigo Liang
Co-founder and CEO, SambaNova
Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova; former processor engineering leader at Sun Microsystems and Oracle
Sanjay Mehrotra
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (joined 2017), Micron Technology
Chairman and CEO of Micron Technology; SanDisk co-founder with foundational flash memory patents
Satish Jeyachandran
Vice President, Engineering, Waymo
Vice President of Engineering at Waymo, heading the hardware organization for the Waymo Driver
Scott DeBoer
President and Chief Technology and Products Officer, Micron Technology
President and Chief Technology and Products Officer of Micron Technology, overseeing Micron Research Labs
Sean Lie
CTO and co-founder, Cerebras
Co-founder and CTO of Cerebras; presenter of its wafer-scale engine architecture at Hot Chips
Sid Sheth
Founder and CEO, d-Matrix
Founder and CEO of d-Matrix, which builds memory-centric inference accelerators and racks for AI
Song Han
Associate Professor with tenure, EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT associate professor and NVIDIA research director; co-author of AWQ, SmoothQuant and StreamingLLM
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Lambda
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Lambda, the AI cloud and GPU infrastructure company
Sudeep Bhoja
Co-founder and CTO, d-Matrix
Co-founder and CTO of d-Matrix, developer of in-memory compute and 3D DRAM inference hardware
Tim Cook
Executive Chair, Apple
Apple executive chair and CEO from 2011 to 2026, whose tenure included Apple Intelligence
Tom Xiao
Senior Corporate Vice President of Engineering, Supermicro
Senior Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Supermicro, which Xiao joined in 2001
Vik Malyala
Chief Business Officer, Supermicro
Chief Business Officer of Supermicro; previously its SVP of Technology and AI
Zack Nelson
Creator and host, JerryRigEverything
Creator of JerryRigEverything, a YouTube channel of smartphone durability tests, teardowns, and repairs
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