Michael Wong

Expert of the ISO Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee, Chair of the C++ Standard Committee’s Machine Learning Group, and CTO of YetiWare

Expert of the ISO Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee, Chair of the C++ Standard Committee’s Machine Learning Group, and CTO of YetiWare. He also serves as Chair of the C++ Embedded Development Committee (SG14) and the Machine Learning Committee (SG19), as well as Chair of the C++ Evolution Working Group. He is the former Vice President of R&D at Codeplay and former CEO of OpenMP, and currently leads the Canadian Delegation to the C++ Standard Committee. Michael has extensive experience in C++ parallel computing, high-performance computing, and machine learning. He led the development of the C++ heterogeneous programming language (SYCL) standard for GPU application development, as well as OpenCL. He has profound research and insights into the performance optimization of the underlying layers of PyTorch and TensorFlow. His work specifically covers parallel programming, neural networks, computer vision, and autonomous driving. Michael previously served as a Senior Technical Expert at IBM, where he led the development of the IBM XL C++ compiler and XL C compiler.