Keynote Speaker
Siddharth Samsi, Ph.D.
Siddharth Samsi, Ph.D. Siddharth Samsi is a Senior Solutions Architect and Data Scientist within the Financial Services and Technology team at NVIDIA. In this capacity, he specializes in GPU applications and accelerated computing initiatives for the financial services industry. His expertise encompasses high performance computing (HPC), distributed artificial intelligence (AI)training, time series forecasting, and performance optimization. Before joining NVIDIA, Dr. Samsi led research at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center. There, his work focused on distributed AI, high performance computing, and energy-aware computing strategies for artificial intelligence applications. Dr. Samsi earned both his Ph.D. and master’s degrees in electrical and computer engineering from The Ohio State University.
Abstract
Performance, Productivity, and Power: GPU-Accelerated Workflows from Network Analysis to Graph Neural Networks for Fraud Detection
AI workloads span from exploratory, single-GPU workflows to datacenter-scale deployments, demanding a balance of performance, productivity, and power efficiency. This talk will start with a brief walkthrough of the Anonymized Network Sensing Graph Challenge, re‑implementing GraphBLAS‑style formulations using commodity data‑science stacks to achieve over 400x speedups over CPU implementations, without custom HPC code. Next, we will discuss a case study for financial fraud detection where Graph Neural Networks and transformers are reshaping fraud/risk pipelines and research workflows. Finally, we will share recent work driving greater energy efficiency and the impact of developer choices on power, energy, and performance for HPC and AI applications running on NVIDIA technology.
Speakers
Brett Newman, VP of Customer Engagement, Microway
Brett Newman is the VP of Customer Engagement & Marketing at Microway, a leading builder of hardware and software deployments for AI and HPC. He is part of a broad Microway team that designs and builds these full-stack deployments for research, governments, and industry. Brett has served many roles in AI and HPC — a cluster, server, and workstation architect for innumerable customers at Microway, as part of the IBM HPC group, and in product marketing focused solely on materials and resources with serious technical “street cred.”
Panelists
Jeff Fosdick, Sales Manager, AI & HPC, Microway
Jeff Fosdick oversees AI and HPC sales for Microway across North America. He forges strategic customer relationships and provides complex solutions to clients in a broad range of industries, from Higher Education and Research Labs to Federal Government and Defense. Jeff has been part of architecting hundreds of successful AI & HPC deployments—observing and sharing best practices between them. As a Massachusetts native and Boston University graduate, he resides in Plymouth, MA, near Microway’s headquarters.