Guocai Zhu

Guocai Zhu is an experienced ASIC Architect at Black Sesame Technologies Inc, with a career spanning over two decades in computer architecture and hardware engineering. Prior roles include serving as a Computer Architect at Lightelligence, where Guocai Zhu focused on DNN accelerator architecture for advanced models such as BERT, GPT, and ResNet, while also exploring optical computing. At Alibaba Group, Guocai Zhu was instrumental as a Chip Architect, specializing in DNN inference acceleration and benchmarking. Previous experience includes a position at Qualcomm as a Hardware/System Engineer, developing performance models for GPU architecture, and as an Architecture Engineer at S3 Graphics, working on GPU performance infrastructure and GPGPU solutions. Guocai Zhu holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Signal and Information Processing and Electronics Information Science and Technology from Peking University.