The Portal Center organizes a monthly seminar that is open to industry affiliates and sponsors, typically on the first Wednesday of each month. If your company is an affiliate or sponsor and you wish to get access to the monthly meetings, then email Julie Hitchcock (julieh1@stanford.edu). The Portal center also runs a weekly internal seminar on Wednesdays at 12noon in Gates 259.
In the following schedules external affiliate and sponsor talks are listed in bold text and internal talks in normal text.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 26 | Spring Break (no seminar) | |
| Mar 19 | Verification | Clark Barrett |
| Mar 12 | Summer Goals | Discussion |
| Mar 5 | Quantization Algorithms | Mert Pilanci |
| Feb 26 | HLS and VLSI Design | Thierry Tambe, Priyanka Raina, and Mark Horowitz |
| Feb 19 | Collection IR | Fred Kjolstad |
| Feb 12 | Voyager: A High-Level Synthesis Based Framework for Design Space Exploration and Generation of Neural Network Accelerators | Kartik Prabhu |
| Feb 5 | ML Research Overview | Ludwig Schmidt |
| Jan 29 | Compiling Recurrences over Dense and Sparse Arrays | Shiv Sundram |
| Jan 22 | Who is working on what? | Discussion |
| Jan 15 | Apple-Portal Discussion | Eric Lee |
| Jan 8 | Mapping Sparse Applications to Accelerated Computing Systems | Olivia Hsu |
Fall 2024
| Date | Topic | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 11 | AMD AIEngine Software | Joseph Melber (AMD) | |
| Dec 4 | LLM-aided code translation | Abdulrahman Mahmoud (MBZUAI) | |
| Nov 27 | Thanksgiving Break (no seminar) | ||
| Nov 20 | Portable ML Compiler Design Discussion | Priyanka Raina and Fred Kjolstad | |
| Nov 13 | Quantization in Hardware | Thierry Tambe | |
| Nov 6 | Introduction to AWS Trainium architecture and ISA | Ron Diamant (AWS), Serina Tan (AWS), and Jonathan Henson (AWS) | |
| Oct 30 | Current State of HW Quantization and Number Formats | Thierry Tambe | |
| Oct 23 | Chiplets | Mark Horowitz | |
| Oct 16 | AMD AIEngine | Steven Neuendorffer (AMD) and Sam Bayliss (AMD) | |
| Oct 9 | PyTorch Compiler for Internal Hardware | Jeffrey Yu | |
| Oct 2 | Current State of ML Compilers | Christophe Gyurgyik | |
| Sep 25 | Round-Table Elevator Pitches | ||
| Sep 18 | Topic Planning | ||
| Sep 11 | Introductions |