Michael Wong

Chief Scientist of the Singularity Intelligence Research Institute; Chair of the Machine Learning Study Group of the ISO C++ Standards Committee

hief Scientist of the Singularity Intelligence Research Institute; Chair of the Machine Learning Study Group of the ISO C++ Standards Committee; expert member of the ISO Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee. Chair of the C++ Embedded Systems Study Group (SG14) and the Machine Learning Study Group (SG19), and also Chair of the C++ Language Evolution group. Former Vice President of R&D at Codeplay and former CEO of OpenMP. Head of the Canadian delegation to the ISO C++ Standards Committee. Michael has extensive experience in C++ parallel computing, high-performance computing, and machine learning. He led the development of the SYCL standard, a C++ heterogeneous programming model for GPU application development, as well as the OpenCL standard. He has deep expertise and insight into low-level performance optimization for PyTorch and TensorFlow. His work spans parallel programming, neural networks, computer vision, and autonomous driving. Michael previously served as a Senior Technical Expert at IBM, where he led the development of the IBM XL C++ and XL C compilers.