Kurt Keutzer
Professor Emeritus, Professor in the Graduate SchoolInfo Links
Research Areas
Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC)Design, Modeling and Analysis (DMA)
Scientific Computing (SCI)
Research Centers
Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR)Berkeley Deep Drive (BDD)
Biography
Kurt received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1984 and then joined the research division of AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1991 he joined Synopsys, Inc. where he ultimately became Chief Technical Officer and Senior Vice-President of Research. In 1998 Kurt became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Kurt’s research now focuses on systems issues associated with the application of Deep Learning to computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, and finance.Kurt has published six books, over 250 refereed articles, and is among the most highly cited authors in Hardware and Design Automation. Kurt was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1996. At the 50th Design Automation Conference Kurt received a number of awards reflecting achievements over the 50 year history of the conference. These included “Top Ten Cited Author” and “Top Ten Cited Paper.” He was also recognized as among one of only three people to have received four Best Paper Awards in the history of the conference. Kurt's research on Deep Learning has also received Best Paper Awards at the Embedded Vision Workshop and at the International Conference on Parallel Processing.
As an entrepreneur Kurt has served as an angel investor and advisor to over twenty-five start-up companies including C-Cube Microsystems, Coverity, Simplex, and Tensilica. Kurt co-founded DeepScale with his PhD student Forrest Iandola. DeepScale was acquired by Tesla in 2019.
Selected Publications
A. Gholami, A. Azad, P. Jin, K. Keutzer, and A. Buluç, "Integrated Model, Batch, and Domain Parallelism in Training Neural Networks," in SPAA'18: 30th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures, 2018.M. Anderson, B. Catanzaro, J. Chong, E. Gonina, K. Keutzer, C. Lai, M. W. Moskewicz, M. Murphy, B. Su, and K. Keutzer, "PALLAS: Mapping Applications onto Manycore," in Multiprocessor System-on-Chip: Hardware Design and Tool Integration, Springer, 2010, pp. 89-114.
M. Anderson, B. Catanzaro, J. Chong, E. Gonina, K. Keutzer, C. Lai, M. W. Moskewicz, M. Murphy, B. Su, and K. Keutzer, "PALLAS: Mapping Applications onto Manycore," in Multiprocessor System-on-Chip: Hardware Design and Tool Integration, Springer, 2010, pp. 89-114.
J. Chong, E. Gonina, K. You, and K. Keutzer, "Exploring Recognition Network Representations for Efficient Speech Inference on Highly Parallel Platforms," in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010, pp. 1489-1492.
D. Kolossa, J. Chong, S. Zeiler, and K. Keutzer, "Efficient Manycore CHMM Speech Recognition for Audiovisual and Multistream Data," in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010, pp. 2698-2701.
J. Chong, E. Gonina, and K. Keutzer, "Monte Carlo Methods," in 2nd Annual Conference on Parallel Programming Patterns (ParaPLoP'10), 2010.
M. Dixon, J. Chong, and K. Keutzer, "Acceleration of Market Value-at-Risk Estimation," in Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on High Performance Computational Finance, WHPCF '09, New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2009, pp. 5:1--5:8.
K. You, J. Chong, Y. Yi, E. Gonina, C. Hughes, Y. Chen, W. Sung, and K. Keutzer, "Parallel Scalability in Speech Recognition: Inference engine in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 124-135, Nov. 2009.
J. Chong, E. Gonina, Y. Yi, and K. Keutzer, "A Fully Data Parallel WFST-based Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition on a Graphics Processing Unit," in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech), 2009, pp. 1183–1186.
J. Chong, E. Gonina, Y. Yi, and K. Keutzer, "A Fully Data Parallel WFST-based Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition on a Graphics Processing Unit," in Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech), 2009, pp. 1183–1186.
J. Chong, Y. Yi, A. Faria, N. Satish, and K. Keutzer, "Data-Parallel Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition on Graphics Processors," in Proceedings of the 1st Annual Workshop on Emerging Applications and Many Core Architecture, 2008, pp. 23-35.
J. Chong, Y. Yi, A. Faria, N. Satish, and K. Keutzer, "Data-Parallel Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition on Graphics Processors," in Proceedings of the 1st Annual Workshop on Emerging Applications and Many Core Architecture (EAMA), 2008, pp. 23--35.
J. Chong, N. R. Satish, B. C. Catanzaro, K. Ravindran, and K. Keutzer, "Efficient parallelization of H.264 decoding with macro block level scheduling," in Proc. 2007 Intl. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 2007, pp. 1874-1877.
Y. Jin, N. R. Satish, K. Ravindran, and K. Keutzer, "An Automated Exploration Framework for FPGA-based Soft Multiprocessor Systems," in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES), ACM Press, 2005, pp. 273-278.
K. Ravindran, N. R. Satish, Y. Jin, and K. Keutzer, "An FPGA-based Soft Multiprocessor for IPv4 Packet Forwarding," in 15th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2005, pp. 487-492.
D. Chinnery and K. Keutzer, Closing the Gap Between ASIC & Custom: Tools and Techniques for High-Performance ASIC Design, Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
K. Keutzer, S. Malik, A. R. Newton, J. M. Rabaey, and A. L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "Invited Paper: System-level design: Orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design," IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 1523-1543, Dec. 2000.
D. Sylvester and K. Keutzer, "Getting to the bottom of deep submicron," in 1998 IEEE/ACM Intl. Conf. on Computer-Aided Design. Digest of Technical Papers, New York, NY: ACM, 1998, pp. 203-11.
S. Liao, S. Devadas, K. Keutzer, S. Tjiang, and A. Wang, "Storage assignment to decrease code size," SIGPLAN Notices, vol. 30, no. 6, pp. 186-195, June 1995.
A. Ghosh, S. Devadas, K. Keutzer, and J. White, "Estimation of average switching activity in combinational and sequential circuits," in Proc. 29th ACM/IEEE Conf. on Design Automation, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992, pp. 253-259.