Date: Friday, November 21
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Soda 510
Title: Scaling the AI Frontier at Planet-scale: From Compute and Data to Models, Agents and Multimodal GenAI
Bio: Dr. Sujith Ravi, Vice President of GenAI at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), leads the development of transformative AI technologies, including Generative AI, Agents, and Multimodal AI, to revolutionize enterprise capabilities at cloud scale. With over 20 years of AI experience, he invented industry-defining innovations like Smart Reply (one of the first generative AI systems used by billions of people), TensorFlow Lite, and the first trillion-scale Graph ML platform. Previously, he founded SliceX AI and held strategic leadership roles at Amazon Alexa AI and Google AI, driving large-scale AI and machine learning advancements. A prolific author with over 100 publications and patents, Dr. Ravi is widely recognized for his contributions to AI research and innovation, serving as a board member for UCSC and, previously, as chair for AI at the National Academy of Engineering.