IAP Advisors David Brooks, Daniel Sanchez and Onur Mutlu at the 2013 Harvard Workshop
Welcome to the IAP
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The Industry-Academia Partnership (IAP) is an association founded in 2013 that brings together industry and university experts to pursue research in Web 2.0 and 3.0 applications and infrastructure, including AI and machine learning, hardware acceleration, networking, security, and storage.
The IAP hosts workshops and webinars on university campuses with experts from academia and industry to discuss their work and spark new ideas and activities. Below are remarks by Professor Christos Kozyrakis at a Stanford IAP Workshop, regarding the value of IAP participation. Christos is the Leonard Bosack and Sandy K. Lerner Professor of Engineering, Stanford University, and the 2015 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award Winner. Cutting edge collaborative projects are underway in all aspects of cloud computing. For examples, please see PROJECTS.
The IAP Board of Advisors includes:
For post-event summaries and photos of previous Workshops, including testimonials by several attendees, please see WORKSHOPS. Our NEWS page has recent research results in the press, as well as copies of our quarterly Newsletter, which highlights significant technical publications and presentations at major academic conferences. |
Professor David Patterson, the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Turing Award Laureate, “I saw strong participation at the Cloud Workshop, with some high energy and enthusiasm; and I was delighted to see industry engineers bring and describe actual hardware, representing some of the newest innovations in the data center.”
Professor Christos Kozyrakis, the Leonard Bosack and Sandy K. Lerner Professor of Engineering, Stanford University, Researcher at Nvidia Research, Maurice Wilkes Award Winner, “As a starting point, I think of these IAP workshops an intersection of industry’s newest solutions in hardware with academic research in computer architecture; but more so, these workshops additionally cover new subsystems and applications, and in a smaller venue where it is easy to discuss ideas and cross-cutting approaches with colleagues.”
Professor Hakim Weatherspoon, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, Sloan and Kavli Fellow, “I have participated in six IAP Workshops since the first one at Cornell in 2013 and it is great to see that the IAP premise is a success now as it was then, bringing together industry and academia in a focused all-day exchange of ideas. It was a fantastic experience and I look forward to the next one!”
Dr. Carole-Jean Wu, Director of AI Research at Meta, Maurice Wilkes Award Winner, “IAP Workshops provide valuable interactions among faculty, students and industry. The smaller venue and the poster session foster an interactive environment for in-depth discussions and spark new collaborative opportunities. Thank you for organizing this wonderful event! It was very well run.”
Professor Ana Klimovic, ETH Zurich, EuroSys Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award Winner, “I attended three IAP workshops as a PhD student at Stanford, and I am consistently impressed by the quality of the talks and the breadth of the topics covered. These workshops bring top-tier industry and academia together to discuss cutting-edge research challenges. It is a great opportunity to exchange ideas and get inspiration for new research opportunities."
Nathan Pemberton, PhD student, UC Berkeley (earned his doctorate in 2022, currently Applied Scientist at AWS), "IAP workshops provide a valuable chance to explore emerging research topics with a focused group of participants, and without all the time/effort of a full-scale conference. Instead of rushing from talk to talk, you can slow down and dive deep into a few topics with experts in the field."
Dr. Pankaj Mehra, VP Product Planning, Samsung (currently Professor at Ohio State University and Founder at Elephance Memory), "Terrifically organized Workshops that give all parties -- students, faculty, industry -- valuable insights to take back."