Vint Cerf
Chief Evangelist
Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is the co -designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at ICANN, the Internet Society, MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A former Stanford Professor and former member of the US National Science Board, he is also the past President of the Association for Computing Machinery, Emeritus Chairman of the Marconi Society and serves in advisory capacities at NIST, DOE, NSF, US Navy, JPL and NRO. He earned his B.S. in mathematics at Stanford and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at UCLA. He is a member of both the US National Academies of Science and Engineering, the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and the Worshipful Company of Stationers.
Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, US National Medal of Technology, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Japan Prize, the Charles Stark Draper award, the ACM Turing Award, the Marconi Prize and Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Legion d’Honneur, the VinFutures Grand Prize and the Franklin Medal. He is a Foreign Member of the British Royal Society and Swedish Academy of Engineering and holds 31 honorary degrees.
Rakesh Kumar
Chair of IEEE Data Strategy
IEEE/TCX Inc.
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Dr. Rakesh Kumar is a semiconductor industry veteran, an entrepreneur, and an educator. Currently he Chairs the IEEE/Technical Activities Data-based Strategy AdHoc committee, and DataPort. He is the past-Chair of IEEE Roadmaps. He participates in the IEEE 2050, and Future Directions committees. He has been IEEE SSCS President, an IEEE HKN Governor, and on the Boards of IEEE SSCS, TEMS, SSIT and has served on the Industry Engagement committee. He is the Founder, & President of Technology Connexions. He educates and mentors in the IEEE VoLT program, and potential entrepreneurs at UCSD. Dr. Kumar authored the book “Fabless Semiconductor Implementation”, published by McGraw Hill. He is in the IEEE TAB Hall of Honor. During 40+ years in the semiconductor industry he has been VP&GM at Cadence Design and has held various technical and management positions at Unisys and Motorola.
Charan Addala
Production Engineer
Meta
Charan Addala
Production Engineer
Meta
