Richard Ho, PhD

VP, Hardware Engineering
Lightmatter

Richard is VP of Hardware Engineering at LM. Prior to Lightmatter, Richard was one of the early engineers working to design and deliver the Google TPU chip, the first large-scale deployed ML accelerator. He led multiple generations of TPU development fueling many of Google’s top consumer products including Google Translate, Gmail, and Assistant. Richard was also instrumental in building Google’s Technical Infrastructure chip team, helping to deliver YouTube’s Video Coding Unit (VCU) and Google Cloud’s Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). Before Google, Richard was part of the D. E. Shaw Research team that built the Anton 1 and Anton 2 molecular dynamics simulation supercomputers, both of which won the Gordon Bell Prize. Richard started his career as co-founder and Chief Architect of 0-In Design Automation, a pioneer in formal verification tools for chip design which was acquired by Mentor Graphics/Siemens. Richard has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and M.Eng, B.Sc. from University of Manchester, UK.

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Presentation(s):

• Heterogeneous Integration: HPC and Hyperscale Computing Panel Discussion/ Q&A from Audience:

  Wednesday, July 12, 2023
  3:20 PM – 4:40 PM PDT