Nitin .

Nitin is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in deep learning and hardware engineering, currently serving as Manager and Team Lead of DL Training Performance at NVIDIA since May 2017, where leadership encompasses training performance optimizations for diverse deep learning workloads in BigNLP, Recsys, Automotive, and Research. Prior roles include Senior Deep Learning Architect at NVIDIA, focusing on MLPerf training performance analysis and optimization for Minigo and automotive DL workloads, and Graduate Research Assistant at Purdue University. Nitin also contributed as a Big Data Analytics Development Engineer at Teradata Aster, developing analytics functions for SQL-MapReduce. Earlier experience at NVIDIA as an ASIC Hardware Engineer involved the development of verification infrastructure for chipsets. Nitin holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.