Cliff Young

Cliff Young is a member of the Google Brain team, whose mission is to develop deep learning technologies and deploy them throughout Google. He is one of the designers of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), which is used in production applications including Search, Maps, Photos, and Translate. TPUs also powered AlphaGo’s historic 4-1 victory over Go champion Lee Sedol. Before joining Google, Cliff worked at D. E. Shaw Research, building special-purpose supercomputers for molecular dynamics, and at Bell Labs.
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    Mesh-TensorFlow: Deep Learning for Supercomputers
    Noam Shazeer
    Youlong Cheng
    Niki J. Parmar
    Ashish Vaswani
    Peter Hawkins
    HyoukJoong Lee
    Mingsheng Hong
    Ryan Sepassi
    Black Hechtman
    NeurIPS (2018)
    In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit
    Norman P. Jouppi
    Nishant Patil
    Gaurav Agrawal
    Raminder Bajwa
    Sarah Bates
    Suresh Bhatia
    Nan Boden
    Al Borchers
    Rick Boyle
    Pierre-luc Cantin
    Clifford Chao
    Chris Clark
    Jeremy Coriell
    Mike Daley
    Matt Dau
    Ben Gelb
    Tara Vazir Ghaemmaghami
    Rajendra Gottipati
    William Gulland
    Robert Hagmann
    C. Richard Ho
    Doug Hogberg
    John Hu
    Dan Hurt
    Julian Ibarz
    Aaron Jaffey
    Alek Jaworski
    Alexander Kaplan
    Harshit Khaitan
    Andy Koch
    Naveen Kumar
    Steve Lacy
    James Law
    Diemthu Le
    Chris Leary
    Zhuyuan Liu
    Kyle Lucke
    Alan Lundin
    Gordon MacKean
    Adriana Maggiore
    Maire Mahony
    Kieran Miller
    Rahul Nagarajan
    Ravi Narayanaswami
    Ray Ni
    Kathy Nix
    Thomas Norrie
    Mark Omernick
    Narayana Penukonda
    Andy Phelps
    Jonathan Ross
    ISCA (2017) (to appear)
    Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
    Yonghui Wu
    Mike Schuster
    Zhifeng Chen
    Mohammad Norouzi
    Maxim Krikun
    Qin Gao
    Apurva Shah
    Xiaobing Liu
    Łukasz Kaiser
    Stephan Gouws
    Taku Kudo
    Keith Stevens
    George Kurian
    Nishant Patil
    Wei Wang
    Jason Smith
    Alex Rudnick
    Macduff Hughes
    CoRR, abs/1609.08144 (2016)