Richard Ho — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Current Primary Role: VP Hardware at OpenAI.
Co-founder of 0-In Design Automation, an EDA company acquired by Mentor Graphics/Siemens.
Led the hardware team at OpenAI.
Twice published in Nature for work on photonic AI compute chips and the use of ML for chip design.
Taped out the world's first photonic compute chip capable of running full ML.
Contributed to the original ML Accelerator (Tensor Processing Unit) at Google.
Contributed to the Anton1 and Anton2 machines, which won the Gordon Bell Prize for Computer Architecture.

Biography

Richard Ho serves as the Vice President of Hardware at OpenAI, where he leads the company's hardware development initiatives. His career is marked by significant contributions to machine learning for chip design and computer architecture.

Prior to OpenAI, Ho was the Senior Vice President of Hardware at Lightmatter. His work includes being twice published in Nature for his research on photonic AI compute chips and the application of machine learning to chip design, specifically macro placement.