Institute of Chips and AI
(Invitation Only)
Friday, October 17, 2025
9:00 AM - 2:30 PM
Purdue Material Sciences and Electrical Engineering Building
501 Northwestern Ave.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Agenda
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Speaker Bios
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Ryan Carey
Staff System Engineer, Qualcomm
Bio coming soon.
Yiran Chen
John Cocke Distinguished Professor, Duke
Yiran Chen is the John Cocke Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He serves as the Principal Investigator and Director of the NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing Leveraging Next Generation Networks (Athena) and Co-Director of the Duke Center for Computational Evolutionary Intelligence (DCEI). His research group focuses on innovations in emerging memory and storage systems, machine learning and neuromorphic computing, and edge computing. Dr. Chen has authored over 700 publications and holds 96 U.S. patents. His work has received widespread recognition, including two Test-of-Time Awards and 14 Best Paper/Poster Awards. He is the recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society?s Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award and the IEEE Computer Society?s Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award. He also serves as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence (TCASAI) and the founding Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society?s Machine Learning Circuits and Systems (MLCAS) Technical Committee. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and NAI, and an ordinary member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Kunhyuk Kang
Corporate Vice President, Samsung
Bio coming soon.
Helen Li
Marie Foote Reel Distinguished Professor, Duke
Bio coming soon.
Chirag Patel
Sr. Director, AI Product Management, Qualcomm
Bio coming soon.
Steve Soss
Fellow, Global Foundries
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Mary Ann White
Senior Analyst, Synopsys
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