Andrew Schmidt

Andrew Schmidt joined the AMD University Program in September 2023 and serves the North America region.  Andrew leverages his expertise to drive innovation and collaboration within the academic community with the goal to remove barriers and reduce friction of students, researchers, and educators.  Prior to joining AMD Andrew was a Senior Computer Scientist at USC’s Information Sciences Institute leading projects focused on hardware assurance, hardware/software co-design, and heterogeneous distributed systems.  Andrew’s passion for technology education and research led him to join the AMD University Program where he works to promote the adoption of AMD technology in academic research and curriculum development.  In the talk he will present an exploratory framework for Neural Processing Units and briefly demonstrate some of the open-source material available to the community.