oneAPI DevSummit for HPC & AI, Southeast Asia 2023

Sachin Kelkar - Head – APJ Developer and Partner program, Developer Relations, Intel®

Sachin Kelkar leads a cross functional team in the Asia Region focused on dev marketing, key software partnerships and academia. In this role, he focuses on developing the software solutions ecosystem across Asia Pacific by working with key software companies and software developers. Sachin has worked with Intel for 18+ years in the areas of developer engagement, software marketing and solutions engineering. Prior to Intel, Sachin worked at Microsoft and Citrix and has experience of 25+ 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.

Scott Apeland - Sr. Director Developer Ecosystem, Intel®

Scott Apeland leads Intel’s Developer Ecosystem and is responsible for defining and delivering programs for software developers world-wide. This includes building a vibrant ecosystem for oneAPI, an open standards-based, multiarchitecture, multi-vendor programming model that delivers a common developer experience across accelerator architectures. Scott joined Intel in 1991 and prior to his current role was responsible for managing new product development, roadmap strategies and partner initiatives in the Video Conferencing Division, Internet Media Streaming Division and Embedded Controller Division. Scott holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration from Brigham Young University.

Ms. Richa Rastogi - Associate Director at C-DAC

Richa Rastogi leads the Seismic Data Processing application portfolio of HPC-SEA group at CDAC Pune. Her major contribution includes research, design & development of different compute intensive Seismic algorithms. She has contributed several national & international research publications in the field.

Mr. Om Jadhav - Senior Technical Officer at C-DAC

Om Jadhav is an alumni of IIT Delhi & is working with HPC Technologies group at CDAC Pune. His areas of expertise includes HPC Application Porting & Optimization, Performance evaluation of HPC architectures, compilers etc.

Dr. Mahan Raj Banerjee - Senior Software Development Engineer at SankhyaSutra Labs Ltd.

Dr. Mahan has a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from JNCASR. He holds an M.Tech from IIT Kanpur. His Thesis includes the flow topology around anisotropic particles in planar shearing flows and Discretization of stochastic partial differential equations​ and Electrohydrodynamics: Jets. He holds an academic Excellence Award (IIT Kanpur)​. His project at IIEST, Shibpur, Mechanical Engineering includes an Artificial Neural Network model to predict the quality of the outputs of a Pulsed MIG process​.

Mr. Nandit Nair - Graduate Student at IIT Goa

Nandit Nair is a graduate student in the school of Mechanical sciences at IIT Goa. He is currently working on efficient GPU implementation of an incompressible CFD solver.​

Mr. Sathish Kumar EV - Director leading Product development at Infosys Edgeverve

Sathish is a Director leading Product development in Infosys Edge verve, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys that develops innovative software products . He is also a Seasoned Product Management leader who is passionate about building AI based products and platforms.

Sathish is specialized in Product Management and is also a Strategy Specialist with deep expertise in Analytics, Process Mining, and Artificial Intelligence products.

Mr. Raja Gopal Hari Vijay - AI Cloud lead at Zoho Corporation

Raja Gopal holds a Masters degree in VLSI Technology from the National Institute of Technology, Trichirapalli, complemented by a PGC Business Administration from XLRI, Jamshedpur. His career in chip design spans over 16+ years with seven publications at global conferences. Raja leads the pioneering initiatives to the acceleration of cloud AI capabilities and the development of a Linux-based distribution uniquely optimized for Zoho’s products.

Mr. Abhishek Nandy - Co-Founder, Dynopii & Intel® oneAPI Certified Instructor

Abhishek Nandy is co-founder of Dynopii. He has a B.Tech degree and a curious mind. He is also an Intel Black Belt Developer – a coveted open-source Intel award given to people who have made Intel Open Source contributions. He has presented his research work on Reinforcement Learning at ACM SIGGRAPH 2018. He has been an invited educator at several leading premier education institutes in India. Abhishek has also authored books on Reinforcement learning, Unity ML, Leap Motion and Game engines. He was also among the top 50 innovators at the first edition of the Make in India initiative. There he received training for his product lifecycle to practice from IIMA and MHRD IT Dept of Government of India.

Mr. Leonardo Solis-Vasquez - Post-doctoral researcher in the Embedded Systems and Applications Group at the Technical University of Darmstadt- EMEA

Leonardo Solis-Vasquez works as a post-doctoral researcher in the Embedded Systems and Applications Group at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His research interests are high-performance and scientific computing, as well as parallel programming. Since the establishment of the oneAPI Center of Excellence at TU Darmstadt, he has been focused on accelerating parallel computing and simulation software used in medical and pharmaceutical research, powered by oneAPI and the recently-launched Intel Max Series CPUs and GPUs.

Mr. Krishna Mouli - Program Manager in DataScience at Boston IT solution (India) PVT LTD

Krishna Mouli is a Program Manager in DataScience at Boston IT solution (India) PVT LTD with over ten years of experience in Industry. As a Senior Data Scientist, he has built many solutions for Industry verticals such as BSFI, Healthcare and Retail in the field of Machine learning, Deep Learning, NLP, & Computer vision for customers. He is certified from Nvidia on Deep Learning Institution (DLI) for training and is a certified oneAPI Instructor from Intel Software.

Mr. Ritesh R. Kulkarni - Business Development & Channel Management - APJ, Intel®

Mr. Kulkarni is a Versatile professional with 20 years of diverse experience in electronics hardware technology product development, embedded software solutions, client engagements, partner development, customer experience management, managing strategic accounts, and implementation of plans for business growth and achieving targeted revenue goals.

Moderator: Dr. Shriram Kris Vasudevan - Lead – Technical Evangelist, APJ at Intel®

Dr. Shriram has over 15 years of experience in the Industry and Academia together. He holds a Doctorate in embedded systems. He has authored 45 books for publishers including CRC, Oxford, and Wiley. He also has been granted 12 patents. Shriram is a hackathon enthusiast and has been awarded by Harvard University, CII, Google, TDRA Dubai, etc. He has published more than 150 research articles. He was associated with LTTS before joining intel as a Lead –Evangelist, APJ. Shriram runs a YouTube channel in his name which has more than 33k subscribers. He is a oneAPI certified Instructor and ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Ms. Usha Rengaraju - Chief of Research, Exa Protocol

Usha currently heads the data science research at Exa Protocol and she is the World’s first women triple Kaggle Grandmaster.She specializes in Deep Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models and was also one of the judges of Tiger Graph “ Graph for all – Million Dollar Challenge” in 2022 and the judge for Intel oneAPI Hackathon organized by Intel software in 202.

She is ranked as top ten Data Scientists in India for the year 2020 by Analytics India Magazine, ranked as top ten women data scientists by Analytics Insight magazine for 2021 and also ranked as top 150 AI Leaders and Influencers by 3AI magazine.

Ms. Anusha CA - Software Engineer

Passionate software engineer with a drive for innovation and a deep curiosity for exploring new technologies. Skilled in developing robust solutions through years of experience at Lam Research and Honeywell. Committed to diversity and inclusion to create a meaningful social impact.

Mr. Bharathi Athinarayanan - Developer

Bharathi is best identified as a serial innovator and a pioneer in the AI field. He is a PYTHOnator by heart who likes to transform the industry for greater good. Under his mentorship, hundreds of people (from students community and also from the industry) got into the bandwagon of AI and ML. To his credit, he had won several global awards for his innovations from reputed organizations like Intel, IBM etc.

Ms. Deepthi A.J - Ph.D. Scholar

Deepthi A J is a passionate and dedicated Ph.D. scholar with a strong focus on research and innovation. She is a trainer, who imparts knowledge and expertise to aspiring learners. With expertise in conveying complex ideas concisely, she contributes to both academic and professional realms.

Dr. Amarpal S Kapoor - Performance Engineering Architect, Intel®

Dr. Kapoor serves as a Performance Engineering Architect for HPC on XPUs in supercomputing and cloud environments. He drives and participates-in several strategic co-design/development, porting and performance optimization/projection projects. He has been with Intel since 2016. He holds a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Master’s in Computer Modeling, as a Zienkiewicz scholar from Swansea University, UK.

Mr. Anish Kumar - AI Software Solutions Engineering Manager APAC, Intel®

Anish Kumar is a seasoned AI professional, currently leading AI Solution Engineering for the APAC region at Intel. With nearly two decades of experience in the technology industry, Anish assists mission-driven organizations in maximizing their impact, through the use of data science and machine learning, utilizing Intel AI software toolkits and hardware. Anish achieves this through technical workshops, training, and close collaboration with customer engineering teams. His skills and experience make him an invaluable asset to businesses looking to harness the power of AI, driving innovation and growth in an ever-evolving technological landscape.

Mr. Vishnu Madhu - AI Software Solutions Engineer, Intel®

Vishnu Madhu is an AI Software Solutions Engineer at Intel. He is an EEE graduate with more than a decade of technology experience. The last few years of his work has involved piping together ML systems for use cases that span CV, NLP, Recommender Systems and more. In his current role, he works towards enabling Intel’s partners to efficiently utilize their Intel hardware for deploying AI/ML applications.