Northwest-AI-Hub

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Mission

The Northwest-AI-Hub is an infrastructure of physical and virtual facilities with the mission to serve regional and national needs for lab-to-fab translation of AI hardware technologies. Academia and industry partners will collectively accelerate lab-to-fab transition and system demonstration at scale, bridging the "valley of death" and ensuring the commercial viability of the Hub's innovations.

The Hub

The Northwest-AI-Hub comprises over 40 academic institutions, National Labs, and industry partners, covering the entire value chain of semiconductors, from materials, and devices, to EDA and chip design, packaging, as well as system prototyping and testing. 

Executive Committee

Academic Members

Prof. Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University
Prof. Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University
Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin, UC Berkeley
Prof. S.J. Ben Yoo, UC Davis

Industry Members

Paul Cunningham, PhD, Senior Vice President and General Manager, System Verification Group, Cadence
Brad Ferguson, PhD, Senior Vice President / General Manager, SkyWater
Richard New, PhD, Vice President of Research and Development, Western Digital

Internal Advisory Board

  • Dan Armbrust, Si Catalyst
  • Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University
  • Carol Burns, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Abhijeet Chakraborty, Synopsys
  • Bernadine Fong, Foothill College
  • Regina Freed, Applied Materials
  • Rick Gottscho, Lam Research
  • Jack Kotovsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Gil Vandentop, Intel
  • Jeff Weldon, University of Hawaii
  • Ray Zanoni, RTX -Collins

External Advisory Board

  • Sanjay Banerjee, University of Texas Austin
  • Bill Chappell, Microsoft
  • Mark Lundstrom, Purdue University
  • Nicole Petta, Rambus
  • Dan Radack, IDA
  • Kyle Squires, Arizona State University
  • Jennifer Welton, Honeywell

Contact Us

Northwest-AI-Hub Central Office (HCO) - Under the guidance of the Executive Committee the Hub Central Office (HCO) leads the day-to-day Hub operations.