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David Pan

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Founder and CTO at DeepWeave Optimized chips for AI

Austin, Texas, United States

FoundedDeepWeave Optimized chips for AI

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Founder and CTO at DeepWeave Optimized chips for AI

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Co-founders at DeepWeave Optimized chips for AI

UNUnni Narayanan
Unni NarayananFounder and CEO

Experience

  1. The University of Texas at AustinProfessor, Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineeringcurrent2003 — presentChandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  2. DeepWeaveCo-Founder & CTOcurrent2025 — present
  3. DAC, The Chips to Systems ConferenceExecutive Committeecurrent2021 — present
  4. Silicon CatalystAdvisorcurrent2025 — present
  5. Bronco AIAdvisorcurrent2025 — present
  6. Google DeepMindAdvisor2024 — 2025
  7. X, the moonshot factoryAdvisor / Distinguished Engineer2021 — 2024
  8. ICCADExecutive Committee2018 — 2020
  9. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyVisiting Professor at EECS & Visiting Scientist at MTL2019Cambridge, MA
  10. Technical University of MunichVisiting Professor / IAS Visiting Fellow2015Munich Area, Germany
  11. TabulaAdvisor and Consultant2012 — 2015
  12. Pyxis Technology, Inc.Member of Technical Advisory Board2005 — 2010
  13. IBM T. J. Watson Research CenterResearch Staff Member2000 — 2003

Skills & more

EDAArtificial Intelligence (AI)VLSISemiconductorsDesign for ManufacturingAlgorithmsPhysical DesignLithographySimulationsComputer ArchitectureHigh Performance ComputingASIC
+2 moreCircuit DesignFPGA

Languages Chinese · English

  • Building AI Agents with Multimodal Models — NVIDIA
  • 62 DAC 2025 Executive Committee — DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference
  • 61st DAC Executive Committee — DAC, The Chips to Systems Conference

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Who is David Pan?
Founder and CTO at DeepWeave Optimized chips for AI
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David Pan is Founder and CTO of DeepWeave Optimized chips for AI.
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David Pan founded DeepWeave Optimized chips for AI.
Where did David Pan go to school?
David Pan studied at UCLA (Ph.D., Computer Science); UCLA (M.S., Computer Science); UCLA (M.S., Atmospheric Sciences).

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