Richard Ho
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Richard Ho
OpenAI, Head of Hardware
About the Speaker
Richard Ho leads Hardware at OpenAI, where he focuses on co-optimizing large-scale compute systems with the machine-learning models that power modern AI. Previously, he helped build Google’s TPU program across multiple generations and was a core contributor to D. E. Shaw Research’s Anton supercomputers, which earned the Gordon Bell Prize for molecular dynamics simulation. Earlier in his career, he co-founded 0-In Design Automation, a pioneer in chip-verification tools later acquired by Mentor Graphics (now Siemens). Richard holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and M.Eng. and B.Sc. degrees in Microelectronic Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester.