2025 BETR Symposium: Hardware for AI

May 28, 2025 – Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

The inaugural Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Symposium featured invited research talks from experts in industry and academia, a fireside chat about the importance of industry-academia partnerships in the age of AI and machine learning, a student and postdoc poster session, and a dinner reception at the Faculty Club celebrating the careers of Profs. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Jeffrey Bokor. The event brought together attendees from a wide range of the AI hardware ecosystem for a day of networking, exchange of ideas, and building partnerships.

Presenters

Fireside Chat

Pushkar Ranade ›

Sr. Principal Engineer for Central Technology and Pathfinding, Intel Corporation

Tsu-Jae King Liu ›

Dean of the College of Engineering & Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Invited Talks

Ashkan Seyedi ›

Director of Silicon Photonics Products, NVIDIA

Chenming Hu ›

TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

H.-S. Philip Wong ›

Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering, Stanford University

Hong Liu ›

Google Fellow, Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI, Google

James Jaussi ›

Senior Principal Engineer & Director of the PHY Research Lab in Intel Labs, Intel Corporation

John Shalf ›

Department Head for Computer Science and Data Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sayeef Salahuddin ›

TSMC Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Siwoo Lee ›

Executive Vice President, DRAM Path Finding, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Xiaoyu Sun ›

Technical Manager, TSMC Corporate Research

Yakun Sophia Shao ›

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Posters by BETR Center Students & Postdocs

Amit Kohli ›

Derick Tseng ›

Fanhao Meng ›

Hanbin Song ›

Haoxin Zhou ›

I K M Reaz Rahman ›

Inha Kim ›

Ishfak Tahmid ›

Jongho Park ›

Joshua Herrera ›

Lei Tang ›

Sarah Millen ›

Taehoon Kim ›

Yiyang Zhi ›

Yuhan Wen ›

Presentation Recordings

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Michael Bartl, Sayeef Salahuddin, Ming Wu (BETR Center): Welcome Remarks

H.-S. Philip Wong (Stanford): AI Compute Needs Massive and Diverse Memories

Sayeef Salahuddin (UC Berkeley): New Pathways for Energy Efficient AI Hardware

Siwoo Lee (Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.): Memory for AI

Pushkar Ranade (Intel) & Tsu-Jae King Liu (UC Berkeley): Fireside Chat

Hong Liu (Google): Optical Circuit Switching for Scalable Network

Xiaoyu Sun (TSMC): Digital Compute-in-Memory Based AI Accelerators

James Jaussi (Intel): Enabling AI Hardware through Integrated Photonics

Ashkan Seyedi (NVIDIA): Networks for AI Workloads

Sophia Shao (UC Berkeley): Next-Gen Domain-Specific Acceleration for AI: From Hardware to System

John Shalf (LBNL): Algorithm-Driven Codesign of Specialized Architectures for Energy Efficient AI and HPC

Program Chairs

Prof. Ming C. Wu

Nortel Distinguished Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Prof. Yakun Sophia Shao

Associate Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Executive Chair

Dr. Michael Bartl

Senior Executive Director Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Center, UC Berkeley mbartl@berkeley.edu

Prof. Boubacar Kanté

Chenming Hu endowed Chaired Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin

TSMC Distinguished Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Event Location

Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall (3rd floor), UC Berkeley campus

Contact

Michael Bartl
mbartl@berkeley.edu
+1-213-400-5895