Mary Hall is a professor in the School of Computing at University of Utah. She received a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University. Her research focus brings together compiler optimizations targeting current and future high-performance architectures on real-world applications. Hall's prior work has developed compiler techniques for exploiting parallelism and locality on a diversity of architectures: automatic parallelization for SMPs, superword-level parallelism for multimedia extensions, processing-in-memory architectures, FPGAs and more recently many-core CPUs and GPUs. Professor Hall is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and ACM’s representative on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors. She is deeply interested in computing history, having served on the ACM History Committee for a decade and as chair from 2009-2014. She also actively participates in outreach programs to encourage the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in computer science.

Manish is Office Director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at NSF. He joins NSF from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute. His research interests are in the broad areas of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering. Manish is Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of IEEE/IEEE Computer Society and ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Mark Robins was recently named Sr. Director / Head of the AI Strategy Office at Intel, responsible for establishing and driving the AI strategy for the company. Previously, Mark served as Sr. Director / Head of AI Products at Intel, responsible for product management and planning for Intel’s hardware and software AI products. Mark served as VP Products for Nervana prior to the acquisition by Intel in July 2016. Prior to Nervana, Mark served as VP Products for Influitive and, before that, as VP Products for Chegg through their IPO in 2013. Before Chegg, Mark was co-founder/CEO of Grouply, a social networking startup funded by Reid Hoffman and O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures that was acquired in 2010. Before Grouply, Mark was Sr. Director of Product Management at Siebel Systems through its acquisition by Oracle in 2006. Mark started his career as a satellite communications systems engineer for Hughes Aircraft Company (now Boeing). Mark earned a BS and MS in electrical engineering from Cornell and Caltech, respectively, where he also studied neural networks. Mark holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.