The HiPChips Conference Co-Founders
 Dr. Weifeng Zhang Chief Architect & VP of Software Lightelligence, Inc |
Dr. Weifeng Zhang is the Chief Architect and VP of Software at Lightelligence Inc, responsible for hardware software co-design and software ecosystem to empower optical computing and interconnect technologies. Prior to joining Lightelligence, Weifeng was a fellow of Alibaba Cloud and the Chief Scientist of HeterogeneousComputing at Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure. He currently is the Tech Chair of AI Co-Design Workgroup at Open Computing Project Foundation (OCP) and was also a founding member of the Board of Directors at MLCommons™ (MLPerf™). Weifeng received his PhD in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego (UCSD). |
 Dharmesh Jani Co-Chair, OCP Incubation Committee Meta Platforms |
Dharmesh Jani (‘DJ’) is Ecosystem and Partnership lead at Meta and has been an active member of OCP since 2012. He is also co-chair of the OCP Incubation Committee and involved in multiple OCP projects such as Open Domain Specific Accelerator (ODSA) and Sustainability. Prior to Meta, he has worked in Fortune 500 companies leading product development as well as in startups building zero to one businesses. He has BTech from IIT-Bombay, MSEE from UCLA and MBA from UC-Berkeley (Haas). |
HiPChips Events
(in reverse-chronological order)
- The 4th HiPChips Conference (under planning)
- The 3rd HiPChips Conference at ISCA-2023, Orlando, Florida, June 18th, 2023 [seeking sponsorship]
- The 2nd HiPChips Conference at HPCA-2023, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Feb 26th, 2023
- The 1st HiPChips Conference at ISCA-2022, New York City, Jun 19th, 2022 [sponsored by OCP ODSA workgroup]