Rodrigo Liang

Career

Liang began a career at Hewlett-Packard and later led large processor engineering teams at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where those teams built high-performance processors for enterprise systems.¹

SambaNova grew out of the work of Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré, and the company describes Liang as the semiconductor executive who completed its founding team, bringing experience moving chips into production data centers. The company was founded in 2017.²

Products and projects

Under Liang, SambaNova's product line spans SambaCloud, SambaStack and SambaRack, built on the company's own AI chips. SambaNova describes its approach as rethinking AI infrastructure from the silicon up as models grew larger.³²

Work and contributions

• SambaNova platform

  Leads the company that set out to rethink AI infrastructure from the silicon up, with a product line spanning SambaCloud, SambaStack and SambaRack.²³

Timeline

1. 2017Co-founded SambaNova with Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré.²

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Led processor engineering teams building high-performance processors for enterprise systems, Sun Microsystems and Oracle¹
• Began career in engineering, Hewlett-Packard¹

Where they work

• SambaNova 2 people in the wiki

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