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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam

Kaarthik Sivashanmugam
Principal Sofware Engineering Manager, Microsoft

Website | @kaarthikss

Kaarthik is a Principal Software Engineering Manager in the AI Platform group at Microsoft. In his current role, he is leading a team of software engineers and applied scientists in implementing large scale training workloads on Azure Machine Learning service and enhancing the service to make it the best cloud-platform for data scientists and ML engineers. Prior to this work, Kaarthik was involved in the development of near real time data processing platform and GPU infrastructure for deep learning.

Sessions

1:45pm–2:25pm Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Distributed DNN training: Infrastructure, challenges, and lessons learned
Implementing AI
 Location: Grand Ballroom East
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam (Microsoft), Wee Hyong Tok (Microsoft)
Kaarthik Sivashanmugam and Wee Hyong Tok share recommendations to address the common challenges in enabling scalable and efficient distributed DNN training and the lessons learned in building and operating a large-scale training infrastructure. Read more.