Eric P. Xing is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Petuum Inc., and a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed his undergraduate study at Tsinghua University, and holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from the State University of New Jersey, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His main research interests are the development of machine learning and statistical methodology, and large-scale computational system and architectures, for solving problems involving automated learning, reasoning, and decision-making in high-dimensional, multimodal, and dynamic possible worlds in artificial, biological, and social systems. Prof. Xing currently serves or has served the following roles: associate editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA), Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS), IEEE Journal of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and the PLoS Journal of Computational Biology; action editor of the Machine Learning Journal (MLJ) and Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR); member of the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology (ISAT) advisory group. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science, the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, the IBM Open Collaborative Research Faculty Award, as well as several best paper awards. Prof Xing is a board member of the International Machine Learning Society; he has served as the Program Chair (2014) and General Chair (2019) of the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML); he is also the Associate Department Head of the Machine Learning Department, founding director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at Carnegie Mellon University; he is a Fellow of the Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and an IEEE Fellow.

According to csrankings.org, Professor Xing currently ranks as the #1 computer science (CS) professor worldwide, whose papers (in the most selective CS conferences of all disciplines) collectively have the highest (weighted) acceptance among all computer scientists in the US and global universities during 2008-2018.

Qirong Ho holds a Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Ho is a Co-Founder and Co-Head of the original Petuum distributed machine learning operating system research team based at Carnegie Mellon University, and has provided key Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning infrastructure solutions to technology, banking and telecommunications companies. Dr. Ho was a Principal Investigator at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Singapore Management University School of Information Systems.

A recipient of the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research PhD fellowship and the SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation award, Dr Ho's innovative research on distributed software systems delivers a new approach to running Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications at Terabyte scales and beyond, up to hundreds of times faster than existing Big Data systems. He has published over 40 papers with over 1200 citations in the areas of distributed AI and ML systems, large-scale social network and social media analysis, latent space models, and Bayesian Nonparametrics.

Ying Wang is Senior Vice President of Product and Product Marketing at Petuum. Previously, she was a Director of Product Management at various product areas within Google, most recently leading the product effort in building large scale ML based systems to safeguard Google’s advertising products from unacceptable ad content and fraudulent traffic.

Ying also worked in a number of product, marketing and general management positions at eBay, PayPal, and Match.com, where she was focused on launching and growing online businesses from inception, marketing new products, driving business turnaround and building teams. She started her career as a management consultant at McKinsey after graduate school with a focus on eCommerce and Telecomm practice.

Ying holds a B.A in Economics from Renmin University of China, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Pervez Choudhry is Vice President of Business leading the Go-To-Market Team at Petuum. Previously, Pervez was Chief Executive Officer at StackIQ, where he led the team to a successful acquisition by Teradata. In addition to his experience at StackIQ, Pervez has a successful 20+ year track record in executive management, sales, business development and marketing of enterprise technology solutions.

His multifaceted experience spans across leading organizations including Puppet Labs, Splunk, BEA, WebLogic, Sybase and IBM. He is highly experienced in developing and executing sales, business development and new product launch strategies for high growth organizations. Pervez holds a BS in Computer Science from Marist College, and an MS in Computer Engineering from Columbia University.

Saranyan Vigraham is Vice President of Engineering at Petuum. Previously, he was a VP of Engineering at Elementum, where he led their enterprise SaaS platform team that digitized the supply chain for Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and Johnson & Johnson. Prior to Elementum, he was the Head of Software Engineering at Meta, delivering the industry’s first Augmented Reality platform with natural gesture controls.

Saranyan has also held engineering leadership roles at PayPal, Bigcommerce and Qualcomm, bringing with him a diverse engineering experience of shipping enterprise and consumer products across web, mobile and wearable platforms with millions of users.

Saranyan holds a Ph.D in Computer Science with a focus in Machine Learning.