Alison Lowndes Seminar at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Abstract - NVIDIA invests both in internal research and platform development to enable its diverse, worldwide customer base, across gaming, VR, AI, robotics, graphics, rendering, scientific visualisation, HPC, healthcare & more. This talk will provide an update on the hardware and software platform for GPU Computing. Insights will be given into how enterprise and startups are applying AI both on and off-world with rapidly accelerating paths from state-of-the-art research to deployment. 

Bio - Joining in 2015, Alison spent her first 18 months with NVIDIA as a Deep Learning Solutions Architect and is now responsible for NVIDIA's AI Developer Relations across the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa) as well as being PIC for all Space-related activity. She is a mature graduate in Artificial Intelligence combining technical and theoretical computer science with a physics background & over 25 years of experience in international project management, entrepreneurial activities and the internet. She consults on a wide range of AI applications and continues to manage the community of researchers around the world, remaining knowledgeable in state of the art across all areas of AI. Twitter: @AlisonBLowndes.