Bio: Pradeep Ramachandran is a Solution Architect at MulticoreWare Inc where he heads the video encoding team based out of Chennai. Pradeep received his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2011. Pradeep received the W.J.Poppelbaum award from the computer science department at UIUC for hardware design, and was an IBM PhD scholar and an Intel PhD fellow during his PhD. Prior to working at MulticoreWare, Pradeep was part of the CPU Architecture team in Intel, Bangalore, where he made several contributions to the architecture and implementation of Intel's 6th generation core, code-named Skylake. Pradeep's research interests lie in solving problems that warrant solutions at the boundary of hardware and software. His passion lies in making things go fast!