Project Leads

Anu Ramamurthy has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years. She is currently an Associate Fellow, Design at Microchip Technology. Her current interests lie in the area of advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration. This includes all aspects of the ecosystem, starting with the technology, packaging, architecture, test, system integration and cost modelling of such designs. She is very active with the OCP - Open Domain Specific Architecture subgroup.

Anu is also very interested in mentoring women in engineering, has been part of the TechWomen program run by the U.S State department and also actively involved in the mentoring programs at Microchip.

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Bobby Lu is a principal engineer at Lightelligence, where he has made significant contributions to optical communication and optical computing technology. He led the tactical team to build several proof of concept optical computing systems and architected the SerDes for Hummingbird, the world’s first optical network-on-chip which was showcased at Hot Chips 2023.

Bobby holds his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 2014 concentrating in Analog and Mixed Signal Design.

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Daniel Robbins, the esteemed Executive Director of MDC's (Modular Data Centers) at RakworX, Inc. , is a seasoned leader with over two decades of progressive experience in IT Infrastructure.   He has a wealth of experience in shaping the landscape of modular data center solutions. With a proven track record in the industry, Robbins brings a strategic vision and innovative mindset to his role. In his capacity as Executive Director, Robbins plays a pivotal role in steering the direction of MDC's product design, development, application, and implementation. His leadership is characterized by a deep understanding of the evolving needs of the data center industry and a commitment to delivering cutting-edge modular solutions.

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Jaime Comella is a passionate advocate of developing data centers with a holistic view. He works at AQ Compute as Lead Data Center Architect, focusing on developing highly sustainable data centers, with a net zero architecture. Jaime has worked in the past years to enable decentralized computing liquid-cooled infrastructures that turn heat into something usable, acting in design and project management as well as at the international business development. He co-leads the Heat Reuse subproject of the OCP and is a member of the data center committee of the ASHRAE Spain Chapter. He lives in Madrid with his wife and two cats.

Jawad Nasrullah is CEO of Palo Alto Electron, a company at the forefront of developing heterogeneous integrated circuits and advancing 3D-IC technology for high-performance computing. His previous roles include President, CTO, and Co-Founder at zGlue, a pioneering company that developed a platform for chiplet production and a marketplace for their distribution. Before his entrepreneurial venture with zGlue, Jawad honed his engineering skills at leading tech companies including Samsung Electronics, Intel, and Sun Microsystems. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, is the author of six published works, and has been awarded 14 patents.

Jeroen Burks is a big advocate of 7R strategy to make IT more sustainable. Next to a background in Applied Physics and Business administration, Jeroen operated a startup aiming to build liquid cooled, decentralized, edge datacenter that recycle the waste heat a greenhouses. This gave an unique insight in the ecosystem of datacenters, liquid cooling and edge, all the way from design and manufacturing to operating and Business development.

Jeroen personal mantra:  “It’s no use if it’s not used” goes 2 ways. First: It doesn’t make sense to put effort in a project if no one will use the solution, and secondly promoting the re-use of things. Could be hardware, could be heat.

Currently Jeroen is a consultant at ThermoIT; helping datacenters and IT operators change to liquid cooling and heat reuse, as well as bringing InCoolings’ 2 phase chip cooling to the market.

Scientific Leader in Data Centers, Adjunct Professor in Fluid Mechanics at Lulea Technical University in Sweden and a Visiting Professor to the Institute of Thermofluids at the University of Leeds in the UK.

During the last 25 years, Jon has worked on a number of government and industry-funded projects requiring the use of computation. Having built and managed compute clusters to support many research projects, he chaired the High Performance Computing User Group for 20 years at the University of Leeds. In the last eight years, his research has focused on a range of thermal management and energy flow projects within the Data Centre, Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning and industrial sectors.

Since early 2013 1 he has been involved in liquid cooled IT research projects, focusing both at the data centre and the microprocessor scales, which has been further transformed by the opportunities of integrated digital infrastructure research at RISE. His current research focuses on thermal and energy management of microelectronic systems, which has led to many invited talks around the globe within the data centre community.

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Ron Swartzentruber is Director of Product Management at Lightelligence, Inc. and is responsible for managing CXL-over-optics products used for inter-connecting CPUs, GPUs and memory over an optical fabric. Ron has extensive experience in compute architecture for the cloud networking and network communication industries and holds 21 patents for inventions conceived throughout his career. 

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Lead Estimator - Datacenters at Microsoft, brings an 9-year track record in mission-critical construction, encompassing life sciences, pharmaceuticals, data centers, and hospital construction. His expertise spans both general contractor and owner roles, with a keen focus on managing preconstruction for colocation and hyperscale projects. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Board of Mission Critical Magazine. An avid researcher, Vivek has contributed to the body of knowledge on water and stormwater infrastructure through published journal and conference papers. His commitment extends beyond his professional endeavors as he dedicates time to mentor up-and-coming talent in the construction workforce and advises construction tech startups. Vivek holds a master’s degree in civil engineering.

Dr. Weifeng Zhang is a Vice President of Lenovo Group and the Head of Intelligent Computing Infrastructure Lab, Lenovo Research. Prior to joining Lenovo, Weifeng was the Chief Architect and VP of Software at Lightelligence Inc, responsible for hardware software co-design and software ecosystem to empower optical computing and interconnect technologies. Before that, Weifeng was a fellow of Alibaba Group and the Chief Scientist of Heterogeneous Computing at Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure. He also was a founding member of the Board of Directors at MLCommons™ (MLPerf™) and currently serves as the Chair of AI Co-Design Workgroup at Open Computing Project Foundation (OCP). Weifeng received his PhD in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Murugasamy (Sammy) Nachimuthu is previously a Sr. Principal Engineer and a lead cloud solutions architect at Intel Corporation. Sammy joined Intel in 1995, he played key roles in architecture development of Rack Scale Design (RSD), Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory, UEFI, SAL, DIG64, ACPI, Redfish, NVMe Over Fabric standards; PCIe, CXL, Memory and CPU hot plug, RAS and Seamless firmware updates; Intel processor and platform features. Sammy led BIOS/UEFI/Firmware implementation of various Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Itanium® server platforms. Sammy holds 79 patents.

Sammy graduated B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineer and M.E in Computer Science from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

Harry Soin is a Senior Director of Technical marketing at Advanced Energy. He has previously held various design and leadership positions over 35 years with the company. He managed AEI’s China Design Engineering facility in Shenzhen, China before relocating to San Jose, California. Harry has technical marketing responsibilities of AEI’s Hyperscale portfolio. Harry holds a Master’s of Power Electronics degree from University of Toronto, Canada and Bachelor of Electronics from College of Engineering, Pune India.

Harry is an active member of OCP Rack and Power as well as Immersion work streams. He has participated and presented at various Regional and Global summits. Harry was currently co leading Power distribution in Immersion track prior to taking on the role of the co-lead of Rack and Power work stream.

Saket is an expert in developing thermal solutions at both the data center and system level. He has extensive experience in assessing numerous data centers and providing recommendations to improve efficiency and reduce stranded capacity. As a manager of a team of thermal engineers at Hyve Solutions, he provided design inputs for compute and storage platforms, contributing significantly to the success of the company. Currently, as a part of the Technical Strategy team at Meta, Saket is exploring advanced technologies that are not only efficient but also environmentally less disruptive.

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Lee Prewitt is a Director of Cloud Hardware Storage with 30 years of storage industry experience ranging from Magneto-Optical to spinning rust to Flash.  His former work at Microsoft has included working in the Windows and Devices Group where he was responsible for many of the components in the storage stack including File Systems, Spaces, Storport and Microsoft’s inbox miniport drivers.  His responsibilities included storage devices ranging from SD and UFS in mobile to NVMe in Enterprise and Data Centers.  He currently works in the Azure Hardware group where his team is responsible for future Data Center storage initiatives, specifications, and evangelization.

Raúl Álvarez is a data center expert and sustainability advocate. He has extensive experience in data center operations and design, especially in high-performance computing and edge computing. He is passionate about bridging the gap between technical and business aspects, and helping the European region achieve its sustainability goals through innovative data center solutions. He is also an active member of the Open Compute community, where he leads a workstream on immersion cooling challenges. He is well aware of the challenges and opportunities of adopting open technologies in the European market, and strives to foster collaboration and innovation to overcome them. He believes in the power of community and technology to make a positive impact on the world. Because of that, he was recently appointed to lead the Open Compute Project EMEA Regional Community.

He is currently Lead Consultant at eisar, a consultancy firm that provides services in business consulting, development, marketing strategy and planning for sustainability and open technologies.

Jabari is a seasoned Mechanical Engineer, bringing over a decade of diverse experience in the Oil & Gas and critical facilities domains. His journey as a consulting engineer has seen him supporting multiple large capital expenditure projects, ranging from chemical processing plants to IT infrastructure. Since joining the OCP in 2018, Jabari has actively contributed to several workgroups, including Door Heat Exchanger, Advanced Cooling Facilities, and Data Center Facilities, demonstrating his commitment to driving cooperation and innovation in the datacenter industry. Additionally, as a member of the SSI Alliance - a Linux Foundation Project, he helps foster industry-wide collaboration to address complex challenges. Jabari's expertise has recently led him to the Uptime Institute, where he serves as a Senior Research Analyst, continuing his journey in shaping the future of datacenter sustainability, performance and resilience.

Scott Sharp is a Staff Mechanical Engineer and global program engineering lead for third party data centers at Google. Scott is also the co-project lead for the OCP Ready work stream within OCP. During his tenure at Google, he has supported internal infrastructure as well as third party data centers.

Before joining Google, he worked as a consulting mechanical engineer supporting a number of different clients and industries (pharmaceutical, commercial, mission critical, heavy industrial, etc.).

Scott holds a bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (UNL). He also holds a professional engineering license in a handful of states.

Brian Aspnes is responsible for platform hardware pathfinding and architecture in the Data Platforms Engineering & Architecture (DPEA) with over 27 years of experience at Intel. Brian's focus includes high performance next generation Xeon processor architecture and translating new IO technologies into compelling datacenter platforms across High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud and Enterprise. Brian has led the architecture and design of multiple 2-8 socket server generations for Intel's Datacenter group, including 11 years in Intel's Network Product Group. Brian Aspnes is an Open Compute Sub-Project Lead for the Datacenter Modular Hardware (DC-MHS) Project, a Workstream Lead and co-author for the DC-MHS Full Width HPM Form Factor (M-FLW) Base Specification, and contributor on the six DC-MHS specifications.

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Jeff Autor is a Distinguished Technologist in the Technology Incubation CTO Office of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). He has been involved with OCP and the Hardware Management group since 2013. Jeff has made multiple presentations at OCP Global Summit events on topics related to the Redfish specification, power and liquid cooling management, fault management, and Redfish Interoperability Profiles. He has been the co-Chair of the DMTF Redfish Forum since its inception in 2015, actively contributing to both the specification and the creation of open source tools to support the ecosystem.

Over his 30-year career at HPE he has designed and developed manageability solutions including support for SNMP, IPMI and JSON-based Redfish RESTful protocols across a variety of server, data center infrastructure, and remote management products. Jeff earned a BS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jeff is a staff software engineer on the platform security team at Google, with a focus on firmware integrity and attestation flows in data center environments.

Han is currently with Meta AI/HPC core system engineering team. He has been in server, storage, cloud infrastructure, social network industry over 20 years with full experience and solid cross-field expertise.

He worked for HPE, DELL, HGST （Formerly as IBM Storage Group) etc. before joining Meta.

Han got a Ph.D. degree majoring in ECE. His academic backgrounds are in multi-areas: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Compute Science, Math, Data and Graphics Science, Machine Learning and Forecast, security and Cryptography.

He has a Patent Portfolio of around 30 patents and numerous conference, journal, and book publication as well as years of experience as Journal and Conference reviewer.

Steven Moore is the Project Lead of Rack and Power for OCP.

He is also the Global Account Manager of OEM accounts for Rittal, mainly dealing with Hyper Scale customers.

Alex is the Sustainability Lead for the Cloud & Service Provider segment at Schneider Electric. Prior to Schneider, Alex was on the team that established the North American microgrid business at Hitachi, and worked as an environmental and energy consultant for the National Park Service. He is the author of the book "Energy Resilient Buildings and Communities," from CRC Press, and the upcoming "Powering Through: A Professional Guide for Energy Resilience," which in partially dedicated to data center resilience strategies. He earned a B.A. in Environmental Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. from Johns Hopkins University in Economics.

Shijian (Nill) Ge is a Firmware Architect at Bytedance. He has defined Bytedance Cloud Firmware (coreboot+LinuxBoot) roadmap and is leading the team to make it into reality. He always has deep collaboration with the community and achieve win-win.

Nill has been working on system firmware for the last 20 years. He has worked on codebase module, silicon module, platform module on Tiano EDK2, he joined UEFI specification defination in 2007(Network sub-team). Prior to Bytedance, Nill worked on 4-socket, 8-socket server platform design. He had strong experience in server memory and RAS sub-systems.

Nill is a frequent speaker on firmware and system design topics at industry conferences. He enjoys collaboration with the community, he has hosted the workshop and delivered training on memory, RAS and system design.

Dr. Yang Seok Ki is currently serving as the Vice President of Memory Solutions Lab (MSL) at Samsung Semiconductor Inc., located in San Jose, California. He has been a part of the Samsung team since 2011, during which time he has overseen the development of numerous advanced projects such as SmartSSD, Key-Value SSD, CXL Memory Expander, and Memory Semantic SSD. Additionally, he has spearheaded the creation of the NVMe Key Value Standard, SNIA Key Value API, SNIA Computational Storage Architecture and API. Dr. Ki is also a member of the Open Computing Project (OCP) Future Technology Initiative (FTI).

Prior to joining Samsung, Dr. Ki worked for Oracle's Server Technology Group. He also conducted research in High Performance Computing (HPC), Grid Computing, and Cloud at Information Science Institute at the University of Southern California and the Center for Networked Systems at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, as well as his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Engineering from the same institution. Dr. Ki has completed the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ross Stenfort is a Hardware System Engineer at Meta delivering scalable storage solutions.  He has been involved in development of storage systems, SSDs, ROCs, HBAs and HDDs with many successful products and over 40 patents.  He has storage experience in both large and small companies including CNEX, Seagate, LSI, SandForce, SiliconStor and Adaptec.  He has a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Priya Chhiba is a Senior Technical Program Manager in the Office of Strategy and Incubation (OSI) in Google's Advanced Technology and Innovation team. Priya has worked at Google for seven months , and has a passion for Sustainability. In her current role she is responsible for the incubation of new datacenter technologies that are sustainability focused and support Google's Net Zero by 2030 target. Her current responsibilities include the incubation of solutions associated with the reduction of Scope 1 and 3 Emissions, Water/Cooling Sustainability and Energy Efficiency.

Before joining Google, Priya had two decades of experience in power generation and started her career working as a power plant engineer at a Coal Power Plant in South Africa. Her most recent position was engineering manager at Enercon Services Inc. where she led multidisciplinary engineering teams to develop design, regulatory, analysis and licensing solutions for operating nuclear power plants. She also led ENERCON's Hydrogen Initiative, which was an ENERCON incubator venture focused on establishing the company as a service provider to the hydrogen economy.

Priya has a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa and a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on Robotics and Controls from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also has an MBA in specializing in Global Business Management from Ashford University. Priya holds Professional Engineering Licenses in several US states, is a member of the ASME (participant in the ASME Energy Storage Committee), SWE, and CATF Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative. Priya was also a speaker at the Sustainable Energy Council's inaugural Hydrogen America's Summit in 2021.

Sean Sivapalan is a Principal Engineer who has dedicated over 6 years to scaling data center liquid technologies from chip to facility level. He joined Nvidia in 2023 and is currently a Principal Materials Engineer for the Data Center Engineering team. Prior to Nvidia, he worked for Meta and Intel Corporation on advanced data center cooling technologies. In 2021, while at Intel, he was introduced to the Open Compute Project. While serving as the Advanced Cooling Solutions Sub-Project Lead, Sean was part of the team that formed the Fluid Serviceability and Maintenance workstream to accelerate the adoption of cold plate based liquid cooling in data centers. He has contributed to several publications both within OCP and to the ASHRAE T.C 9.9 community on data center liquid cooling. Since 2022, Sean has served as the co-lead for the Cooling Environment Project at OCP.

Ravindra is a part of Meta's networking team responsible for the development of FBOSS, the software that powers Meta's disaggregated open networking systems. Ravindra has been developing software for over 25 years in networking technologies such as P4, DCB, FCOE, MPLS-TE, and ATM switching at companies such as Barefoot Networks, Cisco Systems, Tellabs, and FORE Systems.

Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam is a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel’s Data Center Platform Group. Reddy is responsible for driving server platform, storage and firmware architecture for cloud segment. Reddy has 20+ years of software development, platform architecture and systems engineering expertise. He is a board member in Ceph and SODA Linux Foundation storage projects. He was instrumental in initiating and gaining consensus among storage vendors to launch SODA (former name OpenSDS) Linux Foundation project. Delivered industry first OCP OSF Xeon server firmware solution for Tioga Pass (Skylake) and Delta Lake (Cooper Lake) OCP Platforms as part of OCP OSF initiative. Reddy co-lead OCP OSF project and currently focuses on OCP CMS initiative as CMS sub-project co-lead.

I am a Distinguished Engineer on the Architecture team in the Cloud and Emerging Technologies (CET) group at Dell Technologies. I've been at Dell for 30 years and have 30 patents granted in Desktop, Workstation, and Server design.

At OCP, I've been a Project lead of the Server Project since August 2014 working on the original Decathlete and OCP MEZZ specifications. We’ve come a long way since then and I’m excited about the opportunity to continue leading the OCP Server Project along with our NIC, OAI, HPC, ODSA, DC-SCM, CMS and future sub-projects.

Ahmad Byagowi is a Research Scientist focused on Time and Frequency Synchronization in Hyper Scale Networks. Ahmad received his first Ph.D. (Dr. Techn.) from Vienna University of Technology (TUWIEN) under the supervision of Prof. Peter Kopacek working on distributed control systems in 2010. Following that, Byagowi went to the University of Manitoba, initially as a Post Doc fellow working with Prof. Zahra Moussavi working on game engines and virtual reality systems. Due to his interest in the project, Byagowi started a second Ph.D. and finished it in 2016.

After that, Byagowi started working with Prof. Ramesh Raskar from the MIT Media Labs on haptic systems. This led him to Meta as a visiting scholar. He was impressed by the research there and decided to join Facebook in 2017. Byagowi still holds an Adjunct Professor title with the University of Manitoba.

In 2020 Ahmad started the OCP TAP with help of his colleagues to provide an open source solution for the time appliances in Datacenter environments. Shortly after, Ahmad came up with the design of the Time Card. With help of the community, Time Card became a reality. Today, Time Card is produced by many vendors. Ahmad is the chair of the IEEE P3335: Standard for Architecture and Interfaces for Time Card.

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Damien is Hardware TLM in Compute Server Design team of Meta. He is responsible for defining and designing Meta next-generation server system to support fast growing infrastructure demands in large scale. Prior to Meta, Damien was with Intel responsible for Client segment power delivery architecture and customer reference board designs.

Damien led the OCP NIC sub-project with passionate and talented members consist of NIC suppliers, Hyper-scaler, Enterprise, connector suppliers and 3rd party test vendor to develop NIC form factor and specification development for NIC and non-NIC use-cases. OCP NIC has been a successful standard form factor in the industry.

Damien also led Meta’s contribution in DC-MHS jointly define server form factors with other industry players.

Wai Chung Ngai is the Director of APJ Field Application Engineering at AMD, where he leads a team dedicated to providing technical support for AMD's commercial products in the Asia-Pacific-Japan (APJ) region. His main tasks include being the primary technical contact for commercial clients, engaging with large APJ customers to showcase the value of AMD technology, and spearheading initiatives to strengthen AMD's presence in the commercial computing sector.

Prior to joining AMD, Wai Chung served as the Director of Cloud Service Providers & Hyperscale for APJ, leading a team focused on acquiring and managing CSP customers and collaborate with the Lenovo Global CSP team to drive and expand the Infrastructure Solutions portfolio.

Before his tenure at Lenovo, Wai Chung held key roles at Dell, including Director of Dell’s Extreme Scale Infrastructure in Singapore and Director of Data Center Solutions (DCS) in Hong Kong for over a decade. He was the founding member of DCS to start-up the business operation and was responsible for providing Custom Server Design Platforms, Data Center Solutions & Services to Hyperscale and Large Enterprise customers in Greater China and APJ.

With nearly three decades of experience in the IT industry, Wai Chung brings deep expertise in the Hyperscale market and data center technology solutions. He has also contributed to the IT community as the APEC Project Lead of Open Compute Project (OCP), facilitating collaboration, driving Open Standard and Hyperscale Innovation at regional level. 

Wai Chung holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde.

Chief Architect of IEI (Inspur Electronic Information), the first author of book "Ten Technologies of Metaverse" and book "Software Defined Storage".