We will survey recent advancements in the world of custom cloud HW, discuss Microsoft’s unique approach for building FPGA based accelerators and why all that should be interesting for CS faculty and students, rather than be discussed exclusively at dedicated electrical engineering schools.
Ohad Jassin is a General Manager for Azure Edge and Platform at Microsoft Israel Development center. The teams he built and manages are responsible for building a wide array of products and technologies for Azure, including Media AI, Cloud Operating Systems, HW accelerators, Autonomous Driving Platform and more. He is an avid corporate entrepreneur and during the past 7 years and since joining Microsoft, his incubations have created hundreds of engineering and product positions in Israel. Prior to that he spent over a decade at SAP leading the transition from on prem to cloud and spent another decade at different startups. Ohad holds a BA in CS from IDC Herzeliya and M.Sc from TAU.