Vikram Appia#

Vikram currently leads the Efficient GenAI team within the AI group at AMD. The team’s charter is to enable efficient inferencing and training at scale and release open-source models and recipes for the community to maximize performance on AMD GPUs. His team focuses on training and inferencing for various GenAI applications across LLM, image/video generation, and multi-modal models. Prior to joining AMD, Vikram spent about 7 years at Rivian Automotive. His team was responsible for the development and execution of both the on-board and off-board (auto-labeling) Perception stack for all Rivian vehicle programs. In his prior role at Texas Instruments, Dallas, he was a technical lead on the Perception and Analytics R&D labs. He received his MS and PhD in ECE from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He has authored over 40 US patents and over 20 articles in refereed conferences and IEEE journals.
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