Qirong Ho

Dr. Qirong Ho joined MBZUAI as an Assistant Professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Acting Manager of the Center for Integrative Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Qirong Ho is Co-Founder and CTO at Petuum Inc., an AI startup recognized as one of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers. Petuum creates the standardized building blocks for assembling AI affordably and sustainably. Dr. Ho holds a Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University, and is part of the Technical Committee for the CASL (Composable, Automatic and Scalable ML) open-source consortium. Prior to his work at Petuum, Dr. Ho provided key Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning infrastructure solutions to technology, banking and telecommunications companies.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Carnegie Mellon University (2009 — 2014)

Companies

• Assistant Professor MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) (2021)
• Chief Technology Officer Petuum, Inc. (2018)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor SMU - Singapore Management University (2014)
• Open Source Manager www.petuum.org (2012)
• Chief Operating Officer Petuum, Inc. (2016 — 2018)
• Scientist and Principal Investigator Institute for Infocomm Research (2014 — 2016)
• Software Engineer Internship Facebook (2011 — 2011)