Chung-Min Chen is with Lutron where he provides consulting in data science and research related to lighting systems manufacturing, user experiences, and marketing. Prior to that he was VP of Data Science at Sidecar Interactive, a startup leveraging machine learning in digital marketing, and Sr. Director of Data Science and Analytics at iconectiv (an Ericsson company) where he helped build Ericsson’s analytics products that enable telecom carriers to better understand and manage mobile user experiences. He had also held research and management positions with Bellcore, Telcordia, and subsequently Applied Communication Sciences. His interests span across database systems, distributed and parallel computing, mobile computing, and machine learning. He has published over 50 papers in leading ACM and IEEE journals and conferences including JACM, TOSN, TKDE, TMC, TON, JSAC, SIGKDD, PODS, SIGMOD. He received a PhD in CS from University of Maryland, College Park and BS in CSIE from National Taiwan University.

Eric Fukuda is the Founder and CEO of Chiptip Technology. He received his B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Hokkaido University in 2007, M.E. in Information Science from the University of Tokyo in 2009, and Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Hokkaido University in 2015. He started using reconfigurable devices such as FPGA during his Ph.D., building accelerators for database applications in data centers. After he got his Ph.D., he spent two years at the University of Toronto as a postdoc, expanding his expertise from FPGA applications to data center middleware. After founding Chiptip Technology in 2017, he invented FPGA virtualization technology that lets data center FPGAs be shared among multiple users and FPGA distribute computation technology intended for network-intensive applications. His current interest is in network function virtualization, distributed databases, and crypto-mining with virtual FPGAs.