Presenter

Volodymyr Kindratenko is an Assistant Director at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he serves as the Director for the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII). He holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a Research Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Computer Science (CS). Prior to becoming the Director of CAII, he was leading NCSA's Innovative Systems Laboratory—a center-wide research effort to investigate and evaluate emerging compute technologies for high-performance computing applications. Dr. Kindratenko received D.Sc. degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium, in 1997. His research interests include high-performance computing, special-purpose computing architectures, cloud computing, and machine learning systems and applications. He serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. Dr. Kindratenko’s work has been funded by NSF, NASA, ONR, DOE, and industry. He has published over 100 papers in refereed scientific journals and conference proceedings and holds five US patents. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.