Societal Infrastructure in the Age of Artificial General Intelligence | Kisaco Research
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Amin Vahdat

Fellow & VP of ML, Systems & Cloud AI
Google

Amin Vahdat is a Fellow and Vice President of Engineering at Google, where his team is responsible for delivering industry-best Machine Learning software and hardware that serves all of Google and the world, now and in the future, and Artificial Intelligence technologies that solve customers’ most pressing business challenges. He previously led the Systems and Services Infrastructure organization from 2021 until the present, and the Systems Infrastructure organization from 2019 - 2021. Until 2019, he was the area Technical Lead for the Networking organization at Google, responsible for Google's technical infrastructure roadmap in collaboration with the Compute, Storage, and Hardware organizations. 

Before joining Google, Amin was the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego (UCSD) and the Director of UCSD’s Center for Networked Systems. He received his doctorate from the University of California Berkeley in computer science, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. 

Amin has been recognized with a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the UC Berkeley Distinguished EECS Alumni Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award, and the Duke University David and Janet Vaughn Teaching Award. Most recently, Amin was awarded the SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award for his contributions to data center and wide area networks.

Amin Vahdat

Fellow & VP of ML, Systems & Cloud AI
Google

Amin Vahdat is a Fellow and Vice President of Engineering at Google, where his team is responsible for delivering industry-best Machine Learning software and hardware that serves all of Google and the world, now and in the future, and Artificial Intelligence technologies that solve customers’ most pressing business challenges. He previously led the Systems and Services Infrastructure organization from 2021 until the present, and the Systems Infrastructure organization from 2019 - 2021. Until 2019, he was the area Technical Lead for the Networking organization at Google, responsible for Google's technical infrastructure roadmap in collaboration with the Compute, Storage, and Hardware organizations. 

Before joining Google, Amin was the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego (UCSD) and the Director of UCSD’s Center for Networked Systems. He received his doctorate from the University of California Berkeley in computer science, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. 

Amin has been recognized with a number of awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, the UC Berkeley Distinguished EECS Alumni Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGCOMM Networking Systems Award, and the Duke University David and Janet Vaughn Teaching Award. Most recently, Amin was awarded the SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award for his contributions to data center and wide area networks.