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Building AI infrastructure for the thinking machines of tomorrow.

VP AI Platform & Technology at Renesas Electronics. Founding Chair of the GSA's AI Software Interest Group. Previously led Toyota's autonomous driving programme to 2,000+ engineers.

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“Magnificent Seven” founders of GSA’s ASIG

After talking about it for about two years at the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)’s Asia Pacific Executive Forum in Taipei, it’s finally happened. We launched the group’s first…

May 21, 2026 Read article →

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“Magnificent Seven” founders of GSA’s ASIG

May 21, 2026

Exploring Hyperdimensional Computing

May 12, 2026

Excited! Grace Blackwell GX10 just arrived at home

April 22, 2026

Three takeaways from inspiring AI founder panel at Digital Garden 2026

April 13, 2026

Speaking at Digital Garden Tokyo in March

February 4, 2026

Nominated Chair of GSA’s AI Group

January 31, 2026

Cloud ERP strategies at Tech AI Live Singapore 2025

November 4, 2025

Speaking at Global Semiconductor Alliance APEF Conference in Taipei

October 30, 2025

Interview on Edge AI featured in Semiconductor Review Europe

October 12, 2025

We’re at peak LLM, but not sure what’s next

July 16, 2025

Re-assessing ops: Ansible, Poetry, Terrakube, Gitbook and more

April 20, 2024

eksctl & kubectl – let’s be friends

February 17, 2024

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