2025 BETR Symposium: Hardware for AI

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

The inaugural Berkeley Emerging Technologies Research Symposium will include 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. The event will bring together attendees from leading semiconductor companies, national labs, and academic institutions for day of networking, exchange of ideas, and building partnerships.

Presenters

Fireside Chat 

Sr. Principal Engineer for Central Technology and Pathfinding, Intel Corporation
Dean of the College of Engineering & Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, UC Berkeley

Invited Talks 

Director of Silicon Photonics Products, NVIDIA
TSMC Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
Google Fellow, Machine Learning, Systems and Cloud AI, Google
Senior Principal Engineer & Director of the PHY Research Lab in Intel Labs, Intel Corporation
Department Head for Computer Science and Data Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
TSMC Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
Executive Vice President, DRAM Path Finding, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.
Technical Manager, TSMC Corporate Research
Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Posters by BETR Center Students & Postdocs

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

Presentations

Presentation recordings will be posted after the symposium.