Workshop Speakers and Panelists

Speakers:

Professor Diana Marculescu: Dr. Diana Marculescu is Department Chair, Cockrell Family Chair for Engineering Leadership #5, and Professor, Motorola Regents Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2, at the University of Texas at Austin. She serves as the Founding Director of the iMAGiNE (Intelligent Machine Engineering) Consortium, a joint industry-university partnership for engineering the machines that support intelligent applications from cloud to edge. Prior to joining UT Austin in December 2019, Diana was the David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Founding Director of the College of Engineering Center for Faculty Success (2015-2019) and has served as Associate Department Head for Academic Affairs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2014-2018), all at Carnegie Mellon University. She received the Dipl. Ing. degree in computer science from the University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania (1991), and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (1998). Her research interests include energy- and reliability-aware computing, hardware aware machine learning, and computing for sustainability and natural science applications. Diana is a recipient of multiple awards, including the National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2000-2004), the ACM SIGDA Technical Leadership Award (2003), the Carnegie Institute of Technology George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2004), and several best paper awards. She was an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2005) and the Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design Automation (2005-2009). Diana chaired several conferences and symposia in her area and served as Associate Editor for several ACM and IEEE journals. She was selected as an ELATE Fellow (2013-2014), and is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2013-2017), the Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award (2014), and the Barbara Lazarus Award from Carnegie Mellon University (2018). Diana is a Lifetime Fellow of ACM, and a Fellow of IEEE and

Dr. Alan Bivens: Dr. Alan Bivens is currently the Director of Data Services, IBM Public Cloud, leading a variety of Cloud Data technologies including Cloud Databases, Object Storage, and Kafka offerings. Alan comes to this role after holding numerous senior management roles in IBM Research and Executive Staff positions in IBM’s Blockchain business unit. Alan is also a prolific writer with over 50 filed patents (earning him the distinction of being an IBM Master Inventor), and over 40 publications in the areas of cloud and distributed systems, systems management, and machine learning technologies.

Panelists: Ange Thierry Ishimwe, Dr. Hee Woo Kim, Dr. Lisa Hsu, Professor Neeraja Yadwadkar, Professor Abdullah Muzahid, Dr. Erika S Alcorta Lozano.