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Kurt Keutzer AI HPC 2022

October 24, 2022

Kurt Keutzer is a Professor of EECS at University of California, Berkeley where he is a member of the BAIR Lab and co-director of the Berkeley Deep Drive research consortium. His research covers all aspects of Deep Learning. His collaboration on the LARS and LAMB algorithms reduced the training time of ImageNet and BERT to minutes. His “Squeeze” family of DNNs were among the first DNNs suitable for mobile applications. Previously, Kurt was CTO at Synopsys, and his contributions to Electronic Design Automation were recognized at the 50th Design Automation Conference where he was noted as a Top 10 most-cited author, author of a Top 10 cited paper, and one of only three people to win four Best Paper Awards in the 50-year history of that conference. As an entrepreneur Kurt has been an investor and advisor to over 30 startups. His most recent exits have been DeepScale (co-founder), acquired by Tesla, and BabbleLabs (investor and advisor), acquired by Cisco.