Speakers

Huma Abidi is Senior Director and General Manager at Intel Corporation, where she leads a global organization of engineers and technologists delivering high-performance AI software stacks. Her team is instrumental in optimizing and upstreaming PyTorch and key ecosystem libraries, while also driving DevOps and end-to-end validation for next-gen frameworks like vLLM and SGLang. These efforts are foundational to Intel’s multi-billion-dollar AI growth.

A veteran leader at Intel, Huma has held a range of engineering, validation, and leadership roles spanning compilers, binary translation, and AI/deep learning. She is a two-time recipient of the *Intel Achievement Award* the company’s highest honor and a three-time winner of the Intel Software Quality Award.

Huma holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and has received executive leadership education at Stanford and Yale. A U.S. patent holder and a frequent keynote speaker at institutions like Harvard and MIT, she is recognized globally as a leading voice in AI software innovation.