Kurt Keutzer

Investor

AI Faculty Partner at House

About

Kurt Keutzer earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1984 and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining Synopsys, Inc., where he became Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Research. Since 1998 he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where his research applies parallelism to accelerate training and deployment of deep neural networks for computer vision, speech recognition, multimedia analysis, and computational finance. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1996 and has published extensively in hardware and design automation.