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Vikram Saletore is a Principal Engineer and manages the Customer Solutions Performance Enabling team in the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel Corporation for Intel® Xeon®, Intel® Xeon Ph0™ and Intel® Nervana™ products. He has delivered optimized parallel database software to ISVs (Oracle, Informix) and ML Analytics optimizations on Apache/Spark to Cloudera, led joint research with HP Labs and more recently Co-PI for research with SURFsara B.V. on deep learning. Prior to Intel, Vikram was a faculty member in Computer Science at OSU, Corvallis, OR and led NSF sponsored research in parallel and distributed computing supervising 8 students (PhD, MS). Vikram received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MSEE from Berkeley and holds six patents with two pending and has more than 40 research publications.