Pradeep K. Dubey is an Intel Senior Fellow and director of the Parallel Computing Lab, a part of the Intel Labs organization at Intel Corporation. Since 2003, he has led a team of top researchers focused on state-of-the-art research in parallel computing. Dubey and his team are responsible for defining computer architectures that can efficiently handle emerging machine learning/artificial intelligence, traditional HPC applications for data-centric computing environments, and deriving product differentiation opportunities for Intel’s CPU and GPU processing platforms.
Dubey previously worked at Intel from 1984 to 1991. Before rejoining the company in 2003, he had served as a research staff member at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center from 1991 to 2001. While there, he was one of the principal architects of the AltiVec multimedia extension to the Power PC architecture.
Throughout his career, Dubey has made significant contributions to the design, architecture and application performance of various microprocessors, including the IBM Power PC, the Intel386™, Intel486™, Intel® Pentium®, and Intel Xeon® processors.
He holds 36 patents and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed technical papers. In 2012, Dubey was honored with an Intel Achievement Award for breakthroughs in parallel computing research, and was honored with Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award from Purdue University in 2014.
Dubey earned a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, India; a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2001 for his contributions to computer architecture supporting multimedia processing.