Andy Hock
Director, Product, Cerebras Systems

Andy Hock is the director of product for Cerebras Systems, an AI hardware startup out to accelerate deep learning and change compute forever. He has 10 years of experience in product management, technical program management, and enterprise business development; over 15 years of experience in research, algorithm development, and data analysis for image processing; and 5 years’ experience in applied machine learning and AI. Previously, Andy was the product manager of data and analytics for Terra Bella at Google, where he led the development of machine learning-powered data products from satellite imagery; was senior director for advanced technology programs at Skybox Imaging (which became Terra Bella following acquisition by Google in 2014); and was a senior program manager and senior scientist at Areté. He has a PhD in geophysics and space physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in astronomy-physics from Colgate University.

Sessions

5:00pm–5:40pm Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Location: Grand Ballroom H

TensorFlow on the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine

Accelerators

Manjunath Kudlur (Cerebras Systems), Andy Hock (Cerebras Systems)

Manjunath Kudlur and Andy Hock describe the software that compiles TensorFlow to the recently announced Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) for deep learning. Read more.