Bio
Harisankar (Hari) Sadasivan is a Senior AI Performance Engineer at NVIDIA, an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Senior Member/Distinguished Visitor at IEEE. Hari’s research focuses on 3 Critical and Emergent Technologies (CET) that are identified as significant for US’s national security- ‘advanced computing’ for ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘biotechnologies’. At NVIDIA, Hari leads the GPU acceleration of AI kernels for drug discovery. Hari received his PhD and Masters in CSE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Hari’s PhD research focused on hardware-software co-design for accelerated and portable long-read DNA sequencing, and has won the prestigious 2022 MICRO Top Picks with Honorable Mention (with multiple artifact badges). Hari is a technical reviewer with several IEEE/ACM venues including the longest, oldest and the most prestigious formats, and has previously worked with AMD and Samsung R&D.
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Education
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Ph.D.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor -
MS
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor