Kumar Vemuri

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ABOUT KUMAR VEMURI

A semiconductor executive with over two and half decades of Senior Engineering Management, and Technology Leadership & Product management experience. • Engineering Management (organisational, cross-functional and project management) and Technology Leadership on several products that generated $B+ revenues. • 22 years of experience in Engineering Management, Architecture and Design of Highly parallel, Multi-threaded, ultra-low-power GPUs and AI Accelerators. • Engineering-Management, Architecture and Design of processor cores of 8 generations of Intel Integrated GPUs till Skylake• Engineering-Management, Architecture and Design of the first-generation embedded GPU architecture (from ground-up) at ThinCI (now Blaize)• 6 years of experience in building high-performance accelerator cores/IP for Deep-Learning / AI and Computer-Vision• Conceived two different AI / Deep-Learning Accelerator Architectures - A configurable fixed-function architecture for FPGAs and an OpenCL-extended massively-parallel processor architecture• Strong understanding of Hardware-Software interface; experience in Software driver architecture (for 3D Graphics / OpenCL, AI, Deep-Learning).• Experience in building performance and power models. • In-depth understanding of major 3D Graphics and GPGPU APIs.• Architecture, Strategy, Pathfinding and Road-map planning experience.• Experience in start-up fund-raising • Bootstrapped and built advisory and founding teams for start-up. • Experience in driving early tech-validation with partners / customers (Integrators / OEMs)• Pre-Sales partner / customer engagements.• Industry relationships with leading EDA and Design Services vendors.• Early-Stage Start-up and Large Corporation experience.