Project Leads

Ahmed has 22+ years industrial extensive experience in system Power Architecture. Recently, he joined AMD as a Sr. Fellow, Power Architect/Technologist Within GPU Data Center BU. Prior to AMD, he was a Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel working on AI/HPC system power architecture. He has been an active contributor in OAI since 2019. Ahmed Co-lead OAI Power workstream on OAM and UBB 2.0 specification definition.

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Tiffany Jin is a mechanical engineer and sustainability tech lead for data center hardware design at Meta. She is currently the co-chair of the Sustainability workstream within OCP, and previously initiated the OAM form factor and OAI workstream. She has also led the mechanical design of multiple programs across Meta’s hardware infrastructure, including AI/ML systems such as Zion and 2S systems such as Tioga Pass. Tiffany holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and Stanford, respectively.

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.

Song has over 20+ years in hardware system architecture experience and recently joined Meta as AI/HPC Hardware Systems Engineer. Prior to Meta, he was a Principal Engineer at Intel working on AI/HPC system architecture and has initiated a collaborative effort on OAI. He has been an active contributor in OAI since 2019 and co-authored OAM and UBB 1.0 specification. Song lead OAI High Speed and System workstreams on OAM and UBB 2.0 specification definition before joining Meta.

My name is Ted Tang and I graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with master’s degree in power engineering in 1999.

I joined Meta Platforms in 2019 as a power engineer and have been working on various rack and power projects for Meta data center applications. Currently I am leading ORv3 power system development and collaborating with several industrial partner to define M-CRPS standards.

Prior to join Meta Platforms, I worked for Cisco system for thirteen years.  As a technical leader I defined and developed system power architecture for Cisco IoT and desktop switch product lines.

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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.

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.

Maciej is a Software Engineer at Intel with 7+ years of experience in hardware management domain. Maciej worked on the Pod Manager for Intel's Rack Scale Design and Linux Foundation's Open Distributed Infrastructure Management project (ODIM). Both projects implemented Redfish for their manageability interfaces.

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.

Zhixiong (Jonathan) Zhang has been working on system software and firmware for the last 20 years. Jonathan is passionate at achieving computer system solutions (such as CXL memory solution) through holistic designs of software/hardware, and of various software components.  He is thrilled at collaborating with industry colleagues to form visions, and making them into reality. 
 
Jonathan has been spearheading coreboot/LinuxBoot development for servers based on Intel Xeon server processors, through multiple generations from ground up. He initiated and has been leading an industry coalition on this journey. Prior to Meta, he led UEFI/ATF development for ARM servers and made it commercially viable from the ground up; he also led ACPI and windows/Linux driver development for smart phones.
 
Jonathan is a frequent speaker on firmware/software topics at industry conferences. He is an active participant of several industry standard organizations (such as CXL forum, OCP, UEFI forum) and contributed a number of specification changes.

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.

Jordan is a Thermal/Mechanical Engineer on the Datacenter Thermal-Mechanical Solutions team at Intel, specifically working in Intel's mechanical and liquid-cooling testing lab.  He began his involvement with OCP in 2018 as the lead test engineer for hand-mate Universal Quick Disconnect (UQD) inter-supplier testing.  Since then, he has contributed to multiple OCP specifications and whitepapers with the goal of aiding the datacenter industry transition to cold-plate liquid-cooling. 

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Director, Cloud Service Providers & Hyperscale, APJ Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd

Ngai, Wai Chung is a seasoned business and technology leader in Hypersclae, Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and the Enterprise space across Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ). Wai Chung has over 25 years of IT industry experience serving these markets and offering technology solutions including Compute, Storage, Networking & Data Center to solve customers’ business and technical problems. Wai Chung was appointed Director of Lenovo’s CSP & Hyperscale, APJ in 2021. He is responsible for leading a team of Business Development Managers and Architects to offer and design the optimal infrastructure solutions, custom data center products and services for CSP & Hyperscale customers.

Prior to joining Lenovo, Wai Chung served as Senior Director of Dell’s Extreme Scale Infrastructure in Singapore and Director of Data Center Solutions (DCS) in Hong Kong for more than 11 years. He was the founding member of DCS to start-up the business operation and was responsible for providing Custom Server Platforms, Solutions & Services to Hyperscale and CSP customers in Greater China and APJ. Since joining Dell in 1996, he has held various leadership positions in High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Networking and Data Center Infrastructure Solutions. Wai Chung also held several management & engineering roles in JOS Synergy (Hong Kong), iAsiaworks (Shanghai) and Siemens Advanced Engineering (Singapore) responsible for Solutions Consulting, Data Center Co-location Services and Network Engineering respectively in his early career.

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