Author

Karthikeyan Vaidyanathan (Karthik) is a Principal AI Engineer at Intel. His responsibilities include delivering best application performance in large-scale datacenters, defining and optimizing collective communication algorithms, coming up with novel framework-level optimizations and co-designing hardware/software for future scale-out systems. He has made significant contributions to MLPERF submissions, large-scale (up to ~10000 nodes) Top500, Green500 runs enabling Intel to achieve #1 ranking. He is an Intel Achievement Awardee, recipient of Intel Labs Gordy Award, and author of several top-tier conference papers and patents. He received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University, USA.