Abstract

NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) Finland is a joint research center between the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI, NVIDIA, and the Finnish IT Centre for Science CSC. This spring NVAITC has been operating in Finland for three years and it is time to review the past and look into the future. Under the center, we’ve had the pleasure to work on a wide range of topics, from computer vision to differential privacy, and from NLP to Gaussian processes. We have received projects from all FCAI members: Aalto University, University of Helsinki and VTT. In this talk, we will highlight some of the projects and detail our contributions. We will also discuss training activities and future trends in GPU-accelerated computing. Finally, we will reiterate the center’s mission and recap how you can participate.

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Time and location: room T5, Aalto CS building, 2:15pm, april 17th (zoom)

Niki Loppi

Niki is an AI/HPC solutions architect at NVIDIA, helping academic researchers to leverage NVIDIA’s technology stack through the NVIDIA AI Technology Center program. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he worked as a researcher in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, where he also obtained his PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics. Specifically, his research focused on the development of high-order accurate numerical methods for solving large-scale incompressible fluid flow problems using massively parallel modern GPU architectures. Currently, Niki is particularly interested in physics-informed learning and scientific ML in general.

Frederic Pariente

Frédéric is a senior manager in the solutions architecture and engineering group at NVIDIA and the deputy director for the NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) in EMEA. Frédéric first joined NVIDIA as a market development manager for Accelerated Computing in 2015. Previously, he spent 18 years at Sun Microsystems–Oracle as a performance software engineer and was the regional Director of ISV Engineering when he left Oracle in 2015. Frédéric graduated in General Engineering from ENSTA ParisTech, Mechanical Engineering from University of Illinois and Finance from Université Paris Dauphine.