Interview: Dr. Eng Lim Goh on the Latest Trends in High Performance Data Analytics

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(left) Dr. Eng Lim Goh, CTO, SGI and (right) Rich Brueckner, President of insideHPC

Dr. Eng Lim Goh, CTO, SGI and Rich Brueckner, President of insideHPC

In this video from ISC 2016, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI discusses the latest trends in high performance data analytics and machine learning.

“Dr. Eng Lim Goh joined SGI in 1989, becoming a chief engineer in 1998 and then chief technology officer in 2000. He oversees technical computing programs with the goal to develop the next generation computer architecture for the new many-core era. His current research interest is in the progression from data intensive computing to analytics, machine learning, artificial specific to general intelligence and autonomous systems. Since joining SGI, he has continued his studies in human perception for user interfaces and virtual and augmented reality.”

In 2005, InfoWorld named Dr. Goh one of the World’s 25 Most Influential CTOs. In 2007, he was named “Champions 2.0” of the industry by BioIT World magazine, and received the HPC Community Recognition Award from HPCwire. Dr. Goh is a frequent industry speaker and he continues to discuss, in different forums, innovative technologies and their applications. He co-presented with NASA at the inaugural 1st plenary of the Supercomputing 2014 Conference to an audience of 2,500.

Before joining SGI, Dr. Goh worked for Intergraph Systems, Schlumberger Wireline and Shell Research.

A Shell Cambridge University Scholar, Dr. Goh completed his Ph.D. research and dissertation on parallel architectures and computer graphics, and holds a first-class honors degree in mechanical engineering from Birmingham University in the U.K.

Dr. Goh has been granted four U.S. patents, two of which as the inventor and the others as co-inventor.

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