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Emad Barsoum

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Corporate Vice President of AI at AMD
📍 Sammamish, Washington, United States

Emad Barsoum is the Corporate Vice President of AI at AMD, leading a team of over 450 researchers and engineers. His expertise spans Generative AI, ML frameworks, and performance optimization. His career includes senior roles at Cerebras Systems and over 15 years at Microsoft. He holds a PhD from Columbia University.

He is the co-creator of the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) standard, a significant contribution to making AI models more interoperable.

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Experience
11 Years
Current Role
Corporate Vice President of AI
Job Level
Senior
Location
Sammamish, Washington, United States
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Generative AI
Leads AMD's Generative AI pillar, focusing on foundation models, LLMs, and multimodal AI. He frequently posts about his team's releases of new GenAI models.
AI Frameworks
His work consistently revolves around building and optimizing AI frameworks like ROCm, PyTorch, and ONNX, which he co-created while at Microsoft.
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Work history

9-2023
Corporate Vice President of AI
AMD
11-2020 - 9-2023
Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and Engineering
Cerebras Systems
10-2017 - 10-2020
Group Engineering Manager / Architect
Microsoft, AI and Deep Learning
7-2015 - 10-2017
Technical Lead
Microsoft, Computer Vision and Deep Learning
3-2014 - 7-2015
Principal SDE
Microsoft, HoloLens Vision Team
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Education
Eng.Sc.D (PhD)
Columbia University
M.S.
UC Irvine
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