oneAPI DevSummit, Asia-Pacific & Japan 2021

Henry Gabb

Gustavo Acosta

Gustavo co-founded TCS’s CoE for Machine Learning, Pace Port New York, and has led initiatives to transform operations with enhanced data and analytics toolsets for companies across industries ranging from life sciences, medical devices, and automotive. His research interests center on the symbiosis between data science solutions and labor in operations, while his chief personal interest is making time to escape city-life for long hiking trips.

Himanshu Shekhar

Himanshu heads the Product Engineering Team responsible for envisioning and managing the strategic direction of TCS’ DynaPORT solution, catering to automation of Order-to-Invoice processes of Marine and Inter-modal Container and Cargo Terminal. With 20+ years of experience working in Shipping, Marine Port and Customs domain on various transformational initiatives, he likes to work with Business and Technology teams in conceptualizing, architecting and developing solution leveraging digital technology and platforms.

Prof. Sameer Shende

Sameer Shende serves as a Research Associate Professor and the Director of the Performance Research Laboratory at the University of Oregon and the President and Director of ParaTools, Inc. (USA) and ParaTools, SAS (France). He serves as the lead developer of the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S), TAU Performance System, Program Database Toolkit (PDT), and HPC Linux. His research interests include scientific software stacks, performance instrumentation, compiler optimizations, measurement, and analysis tools for HPC. He leads the SDK project for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), in the Programming Models and Runtime (PMR) area. He serves as the General Co-Chair for ICPP 2021 and the Tech Papers Vice Chair for the SC22 conference. He received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1991, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Oregon in 1996 and 2001 respectively.

Andrew Pastrello

Andrew Pastrello is a PhD student at UNSW Sydney and a nuclear engineer at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. His research is in performance portable Monte Carlo neutron transport algorithms, and he is interested in programming new computer architectures.

Dr. Swarnendu Biswas

Dr. Swarnendu Biswas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. His research interests are in the areas of Programming Languages, Compilers and Runtime Systems, and Parallel Software Systems. Dr. Swarnendu was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Texas, Austin, and completed his PhD from the Ohio State University. IIT-Kanpur is #6 in Indian Govt’s NIRF ranking 2020.

Soumyadeep Bhattacharya

Soumyadeep Bhattacharya is Architect of HPC and Simulations Platforms at SankhyaSutra Labs, where he leads a team of engineers in the development of optimized and scalable engineering and scientific simulation software and in the maintenance of petascale computing infrastructure. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai programming new computer architectures.

Andrew Richards

CEO and co-founder of Codeplay, Andrew started his career writing video games in the days of 8-bit computers, progressing to become a lead games programmer at Eutechnyx™, where he wrote best-selling titles such as Pete Sampras Tennis and Total Drivin’. Codeplay has been producing compilers for games consoles, special-purpose processors and GPUs since then. As well as being CEO and Founder of Codeplay Software Ltd, Andrew is also the Chair of the Software working group of the HSA Foundation™ and former Chair of the SYCL™ for OpenCL™ sub-group of the Khronos® Group. Andrew graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Computer Science and Physics.

Dr. Sunil Sherlekar

Sunil Sherlekar is the CEO of SankhyaSutra Labs Ltd.  From Sept. 2010 to April 2015.

 Dr Sherlekar was the Director of Parallel Computing Research at Intel Labs in Bangalore. Earlier he was the Founder & Head of Research at Tata Computational Research Labs in Pune (2006-2010), the Head of Embedded Systems R&D at Tata Consultancy Services (2002-2006), the CTO at Sasken Communication Technologies (1992-2002) and on the faculty of Computer Science & Engg. at IIT Bombay (1982-1992).

Vinayaka Ram Gururajan

Overseeing the AI and Data Science Re-skilling initiative for Corporate Talent Development. Working in Talent Analytics and helping TCS HR and Talent Acquisition team on several data driven decision making initiatives. Social Science Researcher with areas of interest – Information Economics and Decision Sciences. Active runner and fit4life enthusiast. Likes Quizzing, Reading and Blogging.

Shrirang Karandikar

Shrirang (Arvind) Karandikar received his B.E. (E&T/C) from the University of Pune, M.S. (EE) from Clarkson University and PhD (Electrical Engineering with minors in Mathematics and Computer Science) from the University of Minnesota. He has worked in the areas of VLSI Design Automation (Intel, IBM Research), High Performance Computing (CRL) and Digitalization (Shell Technology Centre), and has numerous patents and publications in these areas. He is currently the founder of AlgoAsylum, which provides consulting services in these areas.

Sanjay Wandhekar

Mr Sanjay Wandhekar is Senior Director at C-DAC and heading the HPC Technologies group.  He and his team are spearheading the establishment of supercomputing facilities in various institutes across the country over the last 5+ years. 

Sanjay is currently heading the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) activities which include Establishment of Supercomputing facilities and ecosystem development in the country and development of critical HPC technologies like compute servers, high speed HPC interconnect and system software stack. Till date more than 15 PF of compute power has been established under NSM. He and his team has received Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam HPC award for their contribution to Supercomputing ecosystem in the country.

Sachin Kelkar

Sachin Kelkar leads a cross functional team in Asia Pacific region focused on dev marketing, Key software partnerships and Academia. In this role, he focuses on developing the software solutions ecosystem across Asia Pacific region by working with key software companies, Academic Institutes and software developers. His team is also responsible for the oneAPI Academic Engagements in Asia Pacific region and is working with key universities in India and other countries to facilitate oneAPI software which covers HPC, AI and Media tools engagements on Intel architecture including curriculum development and research. His team in Asia business relationships and developer engagements with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators and student developers in the region across consumer and enterprise segments.  In his previous roles, he has engaged with developers in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Game development. Sachin has worked with Intel for 18+ years in the areas of developer engagement, software marketing and solutions engineering. He has worked on key projects on IoT Enabling, local language enabling, mobile application development and partner marketing. He has been working with startup ecosystem for last few years and has associated with many startups as mentor. Prior to Intel, Sachin has worked in Microsoft and Citrix and has an experience of @ 20+ years in the software and telecom industry. Sachin earned his bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Shivaji University in 1992, followed by a Masters’ degree in Management from Mumbai University. 

Kavita Aroor

Kavita Aroor, is a Developer Marketing Manager- APJ at Intel, focuses on developing the software solutions market across the Asia Pacific. She drives the developer outreach, engagements and programs in the areas of GPU, HPC and AI. With 18 years of experience in brand and field marketing, Kavita has driven numerous customer and user engagement across the Asia Pacific.

Chris Kachris

Chris Kachris is the co-founder and CEO of InAccel that helps company’s speedup their applications using hardware accelerators (FPGAs) in the cloud or on-prem. Chris is the editor of the book ‘Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers’. He has over 15 years of experience on FPGAs (reconfigurable computing), digital design, embedded systems (SoCs), and HW/SW co-design for machine learning, network processing and data processing. Chris is the author of more than 70 papers on the domain of FPGA and reconfigurable computing and has more than 2000 citations for his work and he has served in the program committee of FPL, FCCM, SAMOS, and TRETS. 

Senganal Thirunavukkarasu

Dr Senganal Thirunavukkarasu is a Computational scientist (PhD) from North Carolina State University with over 8 years of professional software development experience and 7 years of graduate research experience. He currently works as the Director of data science at Tiger Analytics.

Lakshminarasimhan Ranganathan

Lakshmi Narasimhan (LN) leads the consulting team for Developer Products Support & consulting division within Intel Software group. In this role he is responsible for working with the developer ecosystem to help them get the best performance from Intel hardware across IoT, Client, AI and HPC segments. He has been working with Intel for the last 16+ years and has led several organizations across Client, IoT and Software. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and has completed his Senior Executive Leadership Program from INSEAD. He loves to read, write and teach in his spare time.

Dr. Amarpal Kapoor

Dr. Kapoor works as a Software Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel Corporation. His principal focus area at Intel is High Performance Computing (HPC) and Intel Parallel  Studio XE cluster tools.  Dr. Kapoor provides consultation services to strategic customers and also participates in general customer enabling activities. Before joining Intel,  Dr. Kapoor completed his PhD in High Performance Computational Fluid Dynamics (HPC), as a Zienkiewicz scholar, from Swansea University, UK. In the last 10 years. Dr. Kapoor has received 21 awards, distinctions and scholarships.

Kavita Aroor

Kavita Aroor, is a Developer Marketing Manager- APJ at Intel, focuses on developing the software solutions market across the Asia Pacific. She drives the developer outreach, engagements and programs in the areas of GPU, HPC and AI. With 18 years of experience in brand and field marketing, Kavita has driven numerous customer and user engagement across the Asia Pacific.

Sachin Kelkar

Sachin Kelkar leads a cross functional team in Asia Pacific region focused on dev marketing, Key software partnerships and Academia. In this role, he focuses on developing the software solutions ecosystem across Asia Pacific region by working with key software companies, Academic Institutes and software developers. His team is also responsible for the oneAPI Academic Engagements in Asia Pacific region and is working with key universities in India and other countries to facilitate oneAPI software which covers HPC, AI and Media tools engagements on Intel architecture including curriculum development and research. His team in Asia business relationships and developer engagements with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), System Integrators and student developers in the region across consumer and enterprise segments.  In his previous roles, he has engaged with developers in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Game development. Sachin has worked with Intel for 18+ years in the areas of developer engagement, software marketing and solutions engineering. He has worked on key projects on IoT Enabling, local language enabling, mobile application development and partner marketing. He has been working with startup ecosystem for last few years and has associated with many startups as mentor. Prior to Intel, Sachin has worked in Microsoft and Citrix and has an experience of @ 20+ years in the software and telecom industry. Sachin earned his bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Shivaji University in 1992, followed by a Masters’ degree in Management from Mumbai University.