Kurt Keutzer, an American electrical engineer, computer scientist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in CS from Indiana University in 1984 and then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1991 he joined Synopsys, Inc. where he became CTO and senior vice-president of research, where he was involved in electronic design automation. His research group is currently focused on using parallelism to accelerate the training and deployment of deep neural networks for applications in computer vision, speech recognition, multimedia analysis, computational finance and computer games [1]. In 2015, along with his doctoral student Peter H. Jin, he published on a MCTS based Go playing program which uses convolutional networks in all parts, exploring the Monte-Carlo search tree using Thompson sampling and a convolutional network, and evaluates convolutional network based rollouts on a GPU [2], a revised version published at CG 2016.
Kurt Keutzer [3]

Selected Publications

1987 ...

• Kurt Keutzer (1987). DAGON: Technology Binding and Local Optimization by DAG Matching. DAC 1987
• Kurt Keutzer, Wayne Wolf (1988). Anatomy of a Hardware Compiler. PLDI 1988
• Kurt Keutzer (1989). Three Competing Design Methodologies for ASIC's: Architectual Synthesis, Logic Synthesis, Logic Synthesis and Module Generation. DAC 1989 ^[5]

1990 ...

• Kurt Keutzer (1991). Impact and Evaluation of Competing Implementation Media for ASIC's..DAC 1990
• Kurt Keutzer (1991). The Need for Formal Verification in Hardware Design and What Formal Verification Has Not Done for Me Lately. TPHOLs 1991
• Kurt Keutzer (1997). Challenges in CAD for the One Million Gate FPGA. FPGA 1997, pdf

2000 ...

• David G. Chinnery, Kurt Keutzer (2000). Closing the gap between ASIC and custom: an ASIC perspective. DAC 2000
• Kurt Keutzer, Michael Orshansky (2002). From blind certainty to informed uncertainty. Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems 2002
• Scott J. Weber, Kurt Keutzer (2005). Using minimal minterms to represent programmability. CODES+ISSS 2005
• Matthias Gries Kurt Keutzer (2005). Building ASIPs: The Mescal Methodology. Springer ^[6]
• David G. Chinnery, Kurt Keutzer (2007). Closing the Power Gap between ASIC & Custom - Tools and Techniques for Low Power Design. Springer

2010 ...

• Bryan C. Catanzaro, Kurt Keutzer (2010). Parallel computing with patterns and frameworks. ACM Crossroads, Vol. 17, No. 1
• Peter H. Jin, Kurt Keutzer (2015). Convolutional Monte Carlo Rollouts in Go. arXiv:1512.03375
• Peter H. Jin, Kurt Keutzer (2016). Convolutional Monte Carlo Rollouts for Computer Go. CG 2016

External Links

• Kurt Keutzer's Home Page
• Kurt Keutzer | EECS at UC Berkeley
• Kurt Keutzer - Google Scholar Citations
• Kurt Keutzer | LinkedIn

References

1. ^ Kurt Keutzer - Bio
2. ^ Peter H. Jin, Kurt Keutzer (2015). Convolutional Monte Carlo Rollouts in Go. arXiv:1512.03375
3. ^ Image from Kurt Keutzer's Home Page
4. ^ dblp: Kurt Keutzer
5. ^ Application-specific integrated circuit from Wikipedia
6. ^ Application-specific instruction set processor - Wikipedia

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