| AI in the Cloud Tuesday, November 18, 2025 UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 8:30AM – 4PM PDT |
Thank You to Our Workshop Sponsors
The IAP UC Berkeley Workshop on the Future of AI in the Cloud was Conducted on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 on the Berkeley Campus.
Time: 8:30am - 4:00pm PST
Venue: Wozniak Longe, Soda Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
This workshop was hosted and co-organized by Prof. Sagar Karandikar and the IAP.
Prof. Sagar Karandikar was host and co-organizer with the IAP of the 2025 Berkeley AI in the Cloud Workshop. Dr. Karandikar is an Assistant Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley and the Jean and Hing Wong Foundation Faculty Fellow. |
Prof. David Patterson keynoted the morning session. Dr. Patterson is the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, and 2017 ACM Turing Award Laureate. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |
Prof. Ion Stoica keynoted the afternoon session. Dr. Stoica is the Xu Bao Chancellor's Chair Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Member of National Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy and an ACM Fellow. |
The Best Poster Award was "Autocomp: A Powerful and Portable Code Optimizer for Tensor Accelerators" by Charles Hong, Sahil Bhatia, Alvin Cheung and Sophia Shao. |
Several Berkeley EECS PhD students participated in the Poster Session at lunch. |
Attendees gathered for a group photo after the Best Poster Award.
Ralph Wittig (AMD) presents "Accelerating the Future: AI, Compute and Innovation at Scale" |
Prof. Ion Stoica presents "An AI Stack: from Scaling AI Workloads to Evaluating LLMs" |
Prof. Natacha Crooks presents “Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First” |
Participants included faculty, postdocs, students, industry scientists and engineers.
AGENDA– Videos of Presentations - see the Speaker Abstracts and Bios below, along with Testimonials from previous Workshops.
8:30-8:55 – Badge Pick-up – Coffee/Tea and Breakfast Food/Snacks
8:55-9:00 – Welcome– Prof. Sagar Karandikar , UC Berkeley
9:00-9:45 – KEYNOTE: Prof. Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley and Google, the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus , "How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint"
9:45-10:15 – Dr. Bilge Acun, Research Scientist, FAIR / Meta Superintelligence Labs, “ CATransformers: Carbon Aware Transformers Through Joint Model-Hardware Optimization”
10:15-10:45 – Ralph Wittig, Head of Research & Advanced Development, AMD, "Accelerating the Future: AI, Compute and Innovation at Scale"
10:45-11:15 – Prof. Sagar Karandikar, UC Berkeley, “Agile Hardware/Software Co-Design for Hyperscale Cloud Systems”
11:15-11:30 – Lightning Session for Student Posters
11:30-12:30 – Lunch and Poster Viewing
12:30-1:15 – KEYNOTE: Prof. Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley, the Xu Bao Chancellor's Chair Professor, " An AI Stack: from Scaling AI Workloads to Evaluating LLMs"
1:15-1:45 – Dr. Erich Haratsch, Senior Director of Architecture, Marvell, “ Data Storage Innovations for Scalable AI Infrastructure”
1:45-2:15 – Prof. Sophia Shao, UC Berkeley, “From Algorithms to Silicon: Accelerating Full-Stack Co-Design for the AI Era”
2:15-2:45 – Dr. Liguang Xie, Engineering Director of Global Compute Infrastructure, ByteDance, **“Towards Disaggregated LLM Inference: AIBrix, Agentic Workloads, and the Rise of DPU-Accelerated AI Systems