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Guiding the Foundation’s direction and focus

Steering Member organizations, through their representatives’ participation on the Steering Committee, help to guide the direction and operation of the UXL Foundation, its working and special interest groups, and projects. The Steering Committee is composed of designated participants from each Steering Member organization and led by an approved Chair.

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Steering Committee Members

Kurtis Bowman

Director of Architecture and Strategy

Megan Knight

Megan Knight

Director of Software Communities, Arm

Arm
Andrew Wafaa

Andrew Wafaa

Senior Director Software Communities & Fellow

Arm
Masahiro Doteguchi

Masahiro Doteguchi

Senior Engineering Manager

Fujitsu
Dr. Priyanka Sharma

Dr. Priyanka Sharma

Director of Software Engineering

Fujitsu
Penporn Koanantakool

Penporn Koanantakool

Senior Software Engineer

Google Cloud

Patrik Masson

Director of Product Management

Imagination
John Melonakos

John Melonakos

AI Libraries Architect

intel
Manuj Sabharwal

Manuj Sabharwal

Director of Product Management, AI Software, Qualcomm

Qualcomm
Dr. Vinesh Sukumar

Dr. Vinesh Sukumar

Head of AI/ML Product Management

Qualcomm
Hanwoong Jung

Hanwoong Jung

Project Leader of Universal Deep Learning Compiler (UDLC)

Samsung

Hear from our Steering Members

“The foundation members aspire to build the largest open ecosystem for accelerated computing. The initial contributions to the foundation will bring an existing open standards based platform with open governance. Our ultimate aim is to foster a multi-architecture and multi-vendor programming platform for all accelerators.”

Rod Burns

UXL Foundation Steering Committee Chair, 2023-2025

“The future of human centric, sustainable digital transformation needs a holistic approach to technology development and open collaboration with the international community. The Unified Acceleration Foundation’s innovative strategy of building a unified development ecosystem will play a vital role in advancing the creation of cross-platform software and accelerators.”

Hirai Kouichi

Head of Software Development Division under the Advanced Technology Development Unit, Fujitsu

“The growing diversity of accelerators presents a tremendous opportunity for the industry but can also introduce challenges. Consistent programming models help developers write code that can run efficiently on any accelerator, fostering innovation and choice.”

George Elissaios

Sr. Director, HPC and ML infrastructure at Google Cloud

“The technology that is improving our day-to-day experiences of driving, entertainment, healthcare and more, is increasingly data-intensive and complex. A new open and collaborative approach to computing is required to provide the necessary acceleration in an efficient and performant manner, whether in the cloud or at the edge. As a founding member of the Unified Acceleration Foundation, Imagination Technologies will help unite the technology ecosystem around the oneAPI spec and encourage its widespread adoption for software acceleration.”

Shreyas Derashri

Vice President of Compute Product Management at Imagination Technologies

“As a new independent entity, the Unified Acceleration Foundation will help build an open source programming model across a wide range of architectures and vendors. This helps to address a critical need in the industry for flexible and open source alternatives that will enable a broad range of unique needs."

Vinesh Sukumar

Senior Director of Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

“Samsung is pleased to be part of the Unified Acceleration Foundation, which will help expand the basis and adoption for memory coupled computing technologies, such as PIM and PNM. We expect the open collaboration will also bolster programming models and software stacks to effectively accelerate AI/HPC applications in future datacenter and supercomputing systems.”

Seungwon Lee

Master and lead of computing software team at Samsung Advanced Institute of technology(SAIT)

“Linux and GNU transformed the CPU software stack through open source and standards, encompassing everything from embedded to cloud computing. As a founding member of the Unified Acceleration Foundation, I believe that open source and standards are essential for creating a cross platform software stack for GPU’s and other accelerators that will serve as the foundation for the next generation of computationally and data-intensive applications.”

Robert Cohn

Intel Corporation, oneAPI Specification Editor