Sean Halle

Sean Halle has a diverse work experience spanning over 25 years. Sean is currently the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Intensivate, a position they have held since October 2020. Prior to this, from April 2016 to October 2020, they served as the CEO of the same company, where they produce a server that provides significantly more computation per dollar of TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and developed a custom processor chip for tasks with a large number of threads.

Before joining Intensivate, Sean worked as a freelance C++ machine learning developer at SoftNAS from November 2014 to September 2017. During this time, they invented a novel approach for incorporating supervised learning algorithms into a feedback loop to improve model accuracy and developed a Neural Network based congestion controller for high bandwidth-delay product wide area networks.

From March 2015 to April 2016, Sean worked as a Data Science Consultant at in2H2 inc. Sean was responsible for identifying customers' computational bottlenecks in Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning and inventing ways to resolve them using the company's chips.

Sean also has experience in research and academia. Sean served as an ERCIM Fellow at CWI from April 2013 to April 2014, where they advanced the proto-runtime platform for parallel runtime systems. Sean also worked as a researcher at the Open Source Research Institute from June 2012 to April 2013, focusing on applying the Protoruntime toolkit to a domain-specific language for machine learning.

In addition, Sean worked at the Technical University Berlin from June 2011 to June 2012 as a researcher, leading TU Berlin's efforts on the European Low Power GPU project. Sean oversaw students working on various aspects of low-power GPU design and parallel computation models.

Prior to that, Sean worked as a researcher at INRIA from 2008 to 2011, where they focused on portable parallel languages and developed the DKU pattern, the BLIS framework, the WorkTable language, and HWSim.

Before entering the research field, Sean founded two startups. In 2002, they founded a fabless chip company, where they developed a low-power multi-threaded high-throughput processor. In 1996, they founded ProSide Inc., where they designed a novel architecture combining SIMD and SPMD for 3D graphics.

Sean began their career as a VLSI Custom Circuit Designer at Digital Equipment Corporation in 1994, where they worked on implementing a high-speed self-timed array multiplier and evaluating low-power logic families for Alpha processors, leading to the invention of five new logic families.

Throughout their career, Sean has made significant contributions in various fields including chip design, machine learning, data science, and parallel computing.

Sean Halle received their bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley from 1989 to 1994. Later on, they pursued their doctoral studies in Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed their PhD between 2003 and 2011.