Rob is NVIDIA’s data center Chief Platform Architect, working with Hyperscales to build GPU clusters for AI and Deep Learning, develop systems and platform architecture, and influence the HW and SW GPU roadmaps at NVIDIA. His interest in AI and DL was driven by its impact on computer science and computer architecture.

With more than 35 years experience, Rob was Senior Fellow of Enterprise Technology at SanDisk / FusionIO, Corporate Fellow and Chief Architect at LSI; Fellow and Architect at AMD; Chief Architect at Infineon; Manager of Technologies at Apple Computer, as well as designer of supercomputers, mainframes, and networks.

Rob has over 40 international patents in processor architecture, storage systems, SSDs, networks, wireless, power management, and mobile devices. He has developed architecture and implementation of CRAY, ARM, PowerPC, ARC, Sparc, TriCore and x86 processors.