Learn more about the team behind Protopia AI.
Eiman Ebrahimi
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Ebrahimi is the Chief Executive Officer of Protopia AI. Prior to Protopia AI he was a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA for 9 years. During his time at NVIDIA, he worked on a variety of problems at the intersection of systems and machine learning. While at NVIDIA research, he co-authored publications on topics ranging from Enabling Programmer-Transparent Near-Data Processing, Holistic Abstractions for Exploiting Data Locality in GPUs, to Distributed Multi-GPU Deep Learning Training techniques. More information about his past research can be found here.
Dr. Ebrahimi obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. His major contribution from his PhD on fairness substrates for multi-core memory systems won the best paper award at ASPLOS 2010 and was featured in Communications of the ACM Research Highlights that year.
Eiman Ebrahimi
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Ebrahimi is the Chief Executive Officer of Protopia AI. Prior to Protopia AI he was a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA for 9 years. During his time at NVIDIA, he worked on a variety of problems at the intersection of systems and machine learning. While at NVIDIA research, he co-authored publications on topics ranging from Enabling Programmer-Transparent Near-Data Processing, Holistic Abstractions for Exploiting Data Locality in GPUs, to Distributed Multi-GPU Deep Learning Training techniques. More information about his past research can be found here.
Dr. Ebrahimi obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011. His major contribution from his PhD on fairness substrates for multi-core memory systems won the best paper award at ASPLOS 2010 and was featured in Communications of the ACM Research Highlights that year.
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
Chief Technology Officer
Professor Esmaeilzadeh is the Chief Technology Officer of Protopia AI. He was awarded early tenure at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he is the inaugural holder of Halicioglu Chair in Computer Architecture with the rank of associate professor in Computer Science and Engineering. Hadi is the founding director of the Alternative Computing Technologies (ACT) Lab, where his team is developing new technologies and cross-stack solutions to build the next generation computer systems. Dr. Esmaeilzadeh obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in 2013 where his Ph.D. work received the 2013 William Chan Memorial Best Dissertation Award. Prof. Esmaeilzadeh received the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) “Young Architect” Award in 2018 and was inducted to the ISCA Hall of Fame in the same year. Additionally, he has received the:
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (2017),
- College of Computing Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (2017),
- Google Research Faculty Award (2014, 2016 and 2018),
- Qualcomm Research Award (2016, 2017, and 2020),
- Microsoft Research Award (2016 and 2017), and
- Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award (2016).
His research has been recognized by four Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, four IEEE Micro Top Picks, a nomination for Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, an honorable mention in IEEE Micro Top Picks, and a Distinguished Paper Award in HPCA 2016. Prof. Esmaeilzadeh’s pioneering work on dark silicon and limits of technology has also been profiled on the front page of The New York Times.
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
Chief Technology Officer
Professor Esmaeilzadeh is the Chief Technology Officer of Protopia AI. He was awarded early tenure at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he is the inaugural holder of Halicioglu Chair in Computer Architecture with the rank of associate professor in Computer Science and Engineering. Hadi is the founding director of the Alternative Computing Technologies (ACT) Lab, where his team is developing new technologies and cross-stack solutions to build the next generation computer systems. Dr. Esmaeilzadeh obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in 2013 where his Ph.D. work received the 2013 William Chan Memorial Best Dissertation Award. Prof. Esmaeilzadeh received the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA) “Young Architect” Award in 2018 and was inducted to the ISCA Hall of Fame in the same year. Additionally, he has received the:
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (2017),
- College of Computing Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (2017),
- Google Research Faculty Award (2014, 2016 and 2018),
- Qualcomm Research Award (2016, 2017, and 2020),
- Microsoft Research Award (2016 and 2017), and
- Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty Award (2016).
His research has been recognized by four Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, four IEEE Micro Top Picks, a nomination for Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, an honorable mention in IEEE Micro Top Picks, and a Distinguished Paper Award in HPCA 2016. Prof. Esmaeilzadeh’s pioneering work on dark silicon and limits of technology has also been profiled on the front page of The New York Times.