Torsten Hoefler

Torsten Hoefler is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and the Chief Architect for Machine Learning at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre. He is a laureate of the ACM Prize in Computing for his pioneering work on HPC and large-scale AI systems, where he laid many of the foundations of the quickly-growing AI datacenter industry. Earlier in his career, he led the Advanced Application and User Support team at the Blue Waters Directorate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and held an adjunct professor position at the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His expertise lies in large-scale parallel computing and high-performance computing systems. He focuses on applications in large-scale artificial intelligence as well as climate sciences.

Hoefler is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences Academia Europaea. He is also a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). His Erdos number is two.

He has been invited to present several keynote lectures at major international conferences such as ACM's Federated Computing Research Conference, IEEE Cluster, HPC Asia, Supercomputing Asia, or the International Symposium on Distributed Computing. Hoefler is known to give widely accessible presentations at major interdisciplinary events such as the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, the ADIA Lab Symposium, or the Global Young Scientists Summit, featuring Nobel and Turing laureate speakers. Provided by Wikipedia