About the talk: As big data pushes the need for high-performance and efficient computing beyond the exascale threshold, the pressure is on to find computing architectures that meet the right mix of price, performance, and power efficiency to support cost-effective data center scalability and acceleration of applications that drive end-user productivity and lower power consumption for sustainability. This will require heterogeneous architectures that combine traditional CPUs and GPUs with innovative accelerators to meet the ever-growing demand of big-data-driven workloads. Endpoints connected to the cloud are also being infused with intelligence through sensors, cameras and other devices and are creating massive amounts of mostly unstructured data. Analyzing this data is driving demand for new workloads such as machine learning. Adaptive computing allows for compute and connectivity hardware that can adapt to the workload and efficiently process data in use, in motion and at rest.

About the speaker: Ivo Bolsens is adjunct professor and executive director of SystemX at Stanford. In 2024, he retired from AMD where he was senior vice president and head of corporate research, leading the advanced development of hardware and software for edge and cloud. His team was also responsible for the creation of a thriving, global ecosystem for AMD technology in academia. Bolsens joined AMD from Xilinx in 2022 as part of the largest acquisition in semiconductor industry. At Xilinx, he served as CTO in charge of the technology strategy and advanced development activities for all software and hardware products. Bolsens joined Xilinx in June 2001 as its CTO, from the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) in Belgium, the largest semiconductor research center in the industry, where he was vice president responsible for the R&D of digital signal processing systems (DSP) for video applications and wireless communication terminals, During his tenure at IMEC, he and his team spun-out three successful startups in the field of SOC design tools and wireless systems.

Bolsens serves on the advisory boards of IMEC, the Engineering Departments of San Jose State University and Santa Clara University, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.

Bolsens holds a Master and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.