Bio

Dr. Wei Li is the Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics (AIA) at Intel, responsible for AI software and AI hardware co-design. He leads Intel’s world-wide team of engineering “magicians” who make “AI Everywhere” a reality by supercharging machine performance and developer productivity. Since starting his career as a computer scientist for supercomputers, he has been at the cutting-edge of technology and business growth, helping Intel transform from PCs, to data center and cloud, and now AI. With a passion for technology, strategy, and execution, Wei and his team have been instrumental in Intel's recent multi-billion-dollar AI revenue growth. His team improves AI performance by 10-100X through software acceleration and for a broad AI and Analytics portfolio including deep learning, statistical machine learning and big data analytics. Wei Li received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He is a frequent speaker at Industry leading conferences as well as universities such as Stanford and Harvard. He has served as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, and was on the Intel/Microsoft committee that funded the creation of parallel computing research centers at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.