Dr. Qirong Ho is co-founder and CTO at Petuum Inc., an AI startup recognized as one of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers. Petuum creates the standardized building blocks for assembling AI affordably and sustainably. Ho holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, and is part of the Technical Committee for the CASL (Composable, Automatic and Scalable ML) open-source consortium. Prior to his work at Petuum, Dr. Ho provided key artificial intelligence and machine learning infrastructure solutions to technology, banking and telecommunications companies.