Martial Michel

Chief Technologist, Vice President AI & Data Sciences
Infotrend Inc.

Worked in the distributed computing field for over 25 years, starting with designing data serialization algorithms for MPI (PhD subject), time synchronizing multimedia network streams collected using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware, developing a job scheduler, architecting data-driven research evaluation platforms, and conceiving and leading the team building an agnostic benchmarking model to allow researchers to bring their algorithms to specialized datasets.

Co-chair of the OpenStack Scientific Working Group for North America.
Co-chair and one of the authors of the now published IEEE 2302-2021 Cloud Federation standard.
Co-Author of the NIST Technical Series Publication SP 500-332 "The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture".

Passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the fields that I have been fortunate to work on over the years, be it Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Architecture and Infrastructure, Project Management, Growth mindset, .