About
Eric Chung is a Partner Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft Azure Hardware Architecture where he currently leads a highly interdisciplinary organization in Azure operating at the intersection of novel algorithms, systems, and hardware. From 2013 to 2019, Eric and team drove major strategic platforms into scale deployment including Project Catapult for Microsoft’s hyper-scale accelerated infrastructure in Azure; and Project Brainwave, a planetary-scale AI inferencing supercomputer for Bing and other cloud services. Eric received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011 and has co-authored over 50 major patents and publications. In 2017, Eric received the IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award in recognition of his research contributions in enabling FPGAs as first-class scalable and high-performance computational engines.
