Industry Speakers

Efrén Sánchez

Red Hat

Solutions specialist for Public Sector in Red Hat Mexico. In 2011, he joined Red Hat Mexico, as a consultant in the implementation and deployment of Red Hat technologies, then as a solutions architect, and finally as a specialist. In accordance with his conviction that technology should be available to everyone, he was a member of Linux user group at Universidad Tecnológica de la Mixteca and a member of several communities of Free Software and the Free Software Foundation for Mexico.

 

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Rolando Cedillo

Red Hat

Rolando has more than 25 years of experience in Open Source technologies, participating in multiple communities that include Free Software, GNU/Linux, Kernel, Fedora, Openstack, Virtualization, Containers, programming languages such as C/C++, Python, and Assembler.

He has worked in the video games industry and in IT as a developer and architect of specialized solutions for both hardware and enterprise software, high-performance environments, supercomputing, and distributed storage.

He is a member of the founding team of Red Hat Mexico and recently worked at Microsoft as Director Technical Audience, helping to evangelize the development of open technologies for the cloud.

 

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Bill Nitzberg

Altair : The future of HPC

Dr. Bill Nitzberg is the CTO of PBS Works at Altair and acting community manager for the PBS Pro Open Source Project (www.pbspro.org). With over 25 years in the computer industry, spanning commercial software development to high-performance computing research, Dr. Nitzberg is an internationally recognized expert in parallel and distributed computing. Dr. Nitzberg served on the board of the Open Grid Forum, co-architected NASA’s Information Power Grid, edited the MPI-2 I/O standard, and has published numerous papers on distributed shared memory, parallel I/O, PC clustering, job scheduling, and cloud computing. When not focused on HPC, Bill tries to improve his running economy for his long-distance running adventures.

 

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Pedro Mário Cruz e Silva

NVIDIA

Pedro Mário Cruz e Silva did his BSc (1995), and MSc (1998) at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), he also did his DSc in 2004 at PUC-Rio. He created the Computational Geophysics Group at Tecgraf/PUC-Rio were worked for 15 years as Manager, during this period was responsible for several Software Development and R&D projects for Geophysics with strong focus on innovation. He also finished an MBA in 2015 at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV/RJ). Is member of the main board of The Brazilian Geophysical Society (SBGf). Currently is the Solution Architect for Higher-Education and Research in the Latin America Region.

 

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Emilio Tamez

NVIDIA

With studies in computer science, he has more than 20 years of experience in the computer industry in Mexico, he is currently responsible for NVIDIA business solutions in Mexico.

Previously, he has worked as a director in companies such as Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems, Riverbed and Citrix.

 

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Eng Lim Goh

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Eng Lim Goh, PhD
Senior Vice President,
Chief Technology Officer, Artificial Intelligence
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Dr. Eng Lim Goh is senior vice president and chief technology officer for artificial intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to this, he was CTO for majority of his 27 years at Silicon Graphics, now part of HPE. His research interests include humanity’s differentiation as we progress from analytics to inductive machine learning, deductive reasoning, and specific to general artificial intelligence. He continues his studies in human perception for virtual and augmented reality.

As principal investigator of the experiment aboard the International Space Station to operate autonomous supercomputers on long duration space travel, Dr. Goh was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal. His other work includes co-inventing blockchain-based swarm learning applications that was published and on the cover of Nature, overseeing deployment of AI to Formula 1 racing, industrial application of technologies behind a champion poker bot, co-designing the systems architecture for simulating a biologically detailed mammalian brain, and predicting predisposition to vaccine side effects using gene expression data. He has ten U.S. patents, with three others pending.

A Singapore Visionary Award recipient, Dr. Goh is a Scientific Advisory Board member of the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office. In 2005, InfoWorld named him one of the World's 25 Most Influential CTOs. He was included twice in the HPCwire list of "People to Watch” and received the HPC Community Recognition Award. His work for Stephen Hawking included a symposium invitation to introduce the discoveries of Professor Saul Perlmutter, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Dr. Goh completed his PhD research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K.

 

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Jerome Baudry

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Dr. Jerome Baudry

MRS. PEI-LING CHAN CHAIR & PROFESSOR,BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Professor Jerome Baudry is the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Huntsville; Department of Biological Sciences. Dr. Baudry obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics with the highest Honors from the University of Paris, UPMC/Sorbonne Universities, France.

He subsequently joined the group of Klaus Schulten at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a post-doc. After his post- doctoral work, Dr. Baudry worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a Research Scientist, and then accepted a Senior Research Scientist position back in Illinois on a non-tenure track research faculty position. Dr. Baudry joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the UT/ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics as a tenure track Assistant Professor in 2008.

In 2014, he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. In August 2017, Dr. Baudry joined UAH as the Mrs. Pei-Ling Chan Professor. At UAH, Dr. Baudry's group develops and applies methods and protocols for computational drug discovery, both on small-molecules and biologicals, within academic, national laboratories and industrial collaborations.

 

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