Presenter

Gilad Shainer is senior vice president of networking at NVIDIA, focusing on high-speed InfiniBand and Ethernet networking, high performance computing, and AI platforms. He came to NVIDIA from Mellanox, where he worked since 2001, first as a design engineer and later in senior marketing management roles. Shainer serves as chairman of the HPC-AI Advisory Council, president of the UCF consortium, a member of the InfiniBand Trade Association, and a contributor to the PCISIG PCI-X and PCIe specifications. He holds multiple patents in the field of high-speed networking. Gilad is also a recipient of the 2015 R&D 100 Award for his contribution to the CORE-Direct In-Network Computing technology and the 2019 R&D 100 Award for his contribution to the Unified Communication-X technology. Gilad holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.