Bio
Erich Elsen is a Research Scientist at Baidu’s Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab. He leads the High Performance Computing (HPC) group which focuses on techniques for scaling the training of neural networks and increasing the efficiency of their use in deployment. Prior to joining Baidu in September 2014 he was the founder of Royal Caliber, an HPC consulting company that was responsible for Shazam’s music recognition engine running on GPUs. He teaches a course at Stanford University in the Spring on parallel computing.