Luiz M Franca-Neto

Luiz M Franca-Neto serves as a Technical Fellow at Fabric Systems, focusing on the advancement of emerging cryptography and distributed systems solutions since December 2022. Previously, Luiz held the position of Fellow and Director at Syntiant Corp. since May 2019, where efforts centered around the development of low-power machine learning chips. Luiz's extensive experience includes a tenure as Technical Lead/Technologist at Western Digital's CTO office from 2007 to 2019, where significant contributions involved VLSI-friendly machine learning acceleration and high-performance interconnection networks. Additional roles include serving on the Technical Program Committee at SBCCI (2010-2013), a professorship at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (2009-2011), and positions at Intel Corporation and Stanford University, where Luiz completed both M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering.