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Kunle Olukotun

Co-founder & Chief Technologist, SambaNova; Cadence Design Systems Professor, Stanford

Kunle Olukotun is the Cadence Design Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford and a father of the multicore processor — his 1990s Stanford Hydra chip multiprocessor is foundational to the multiple cores in every modern phone and laptop. He co-founded SambaNova, where as Chief Technologist he bet against the GPU with a Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture (the RDU) that maps a model's dataflow graph directly onto silicon.