John Henning is a Deep Learning Engineer at Lightelligence, Inc. in Boston, MA working on the next generation of AI accelerators.
BSc in Computer Science, 2018
University of Florida
Technical lead for building out an experimentation platform for deep learning model benchmarking & analysis
Comparing results between NVIDIA GPUs and Lightelligence Optical Processing Units (OPUs)
Variety of other tools for interdisciplinary teams
Contributed to development of initial OPU SDK, particularly in API design and refactoring
Conducted feasibility studies of different model architectures for deployment onto OPUs
Promoted to Lead Engineer and Architect of IBM’s end to end activity detection system for the DIVA project
Developing Frater, a machine learning and data-driven system framework for modularizing pipelines into components to allow for more flexibility
Published research in continual learning for object detection models to allow for incrementally learning new object classes