Held at the Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB) Atrium on the Georgia Tech campus, easily accessible under the entrance label with Research Wing.
The Georgia Institute of Technology’s CRNCH (Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies) is tasked with finding novel ways to compute by rethinking every level of the computing stack. CRNCH combines experts from all disciplines, from device and materials, through circuits and architecture, to language, software and application experts. CRNCH also includes hardware spanning from memory-centric systems to neuromorphic chips. This novel approach is what makes the Georgia Tech CRNCH approach to post-Moore computing so unique among academic centers.
In the spirit of sharing ideas and exchanging information, CRNCH hosts this invitational meeting on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta. This will be an in-person event with no hybrid option for attendance.
CRNCH 2026 Summit Logistics and Schedule
The summit will be held starting at 9:00 AM on Thursday and Friday in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building (KACB) Atrium on Georgia Tech’s campus.
Thursday, February 12th, 2026 (Klaus Advanced Computing Building Atrium)
| Time (EST) | Session | Speaker/Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Registration and Keynote | Session Chair – Spencer Bryngelson | |
| 8:30 AM | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:45 AM | Hyesoon Kim and Tushar Krishna, CRNCH co-directors Summit Welcome | |
| 9:00 AM | Bronson Messer, ORNL [Speaker Info] Keynote: Co-Design for Science In The Age of Industrial AI | |
| 10:00 AM | BREAK | |
| Architecture and H/W | Session Chair – Tushar Krishna | |
| 10:15 AM | Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee, Intel [Speaker Info] TALK TITLE TBD | |
| 10:45 AM | Abhijit Chatterjee, Georgia Institute of Technology [Speaker Info] Algorithmic Techniques for Reliable AI on Imperfect Hardware | |
| 11:15 AM | Dong Hyuk Woo, Samsung [Speaker Info] Rethinking Computing: A Memory-Centric Perspective on the Era of Large Models | |
| Lunch and Poster Session | ||
| 11:45 AM | Poster Session and Lunch, KLAUS ATRIUM LINK TO POSTERS TBD | |
| Emerging H/W Technologies | Session Chair – Spencer Bryngelson | |
| 1:30 PM | John Shalf, Berkeley Lab [Speaker Info] TBD | |
| 2:00 PM | William Chapman, Sandia National Labs [Speaker Info] Beyond spikes: Intracellular dynamics for mixed signal neuromorphic computation | |
| 2:30 PM | Xiangyu Li, PNNL [Speaker Info] TBD | |
| 3:00 PM | BREAK | |
| ML Systems | Session Chair – Divya Mahajan | |
| 3:15 PM | Humphrey Shi, NVIDIA and Georgia Institute of Technology [Speaker Info] TBD | |
| 3:45 PM | Greg Diamos, TensorWave [Speaker Info] TALK TITLE TBD | |
| 4:15 PM | Prashant Nair, dMatrix [Speaker Info] Scaling the Memory Wall: Towards 3D-DRAM-based Accelerators for Efficient Generative Inference | |
| Memory Systems for AI | Panel Moderator – Moin Qureshi | |
| 4:45 PM | Dong Hyuk, Samsung [Speaker Info] Prashant Nair, dMatrix [Speaker Info] Surya Tatapudi, Micron Shimeng Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology Minsik Cho, Apple [Speaker Info] Panel: Memory Systems for AI | |
| 5:45 PM | End of Day 1 – Time for Networking and Discussions |
Friday, February 13th, 2026 (Klaus Advanced Computing Building Atrium)
| Time (EST) | Session | Speaker/Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Optimizing Next-Generation Systems | Session Chairs – Tushar Krishna and Divya Mahajan | |
| 9:00 AM | Vijay Reddi, Harvard [Speaker Info] TBD | |
| 9:30 AM | Steve Reinhardt, AMD [Speaker Info] Optimizing for Efficient AI across Hardware, Software, and Models | |
| 10:00 AM | Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology [Speaker Info] TALK TITLE TBD | |
| 10:30 AM | BREAK | |
| Prototyping Research in National Funding Priority | Panel Moderator – Jeff Vetter | |
| 10:45 AM | Jim Ang, PNNL John Shalf, Berkeley Lab [Speaker Info] Panel: Prototyping Research in National Funding Priority | |
| Compilers and S/W | Session Chair – Hyesoon Kim | |
| 11:45 AM | Charith Mendis, University of Illinois [Speaker Info] TALK TITLE TBD | |
| 12:15 PM | Prasanth Chatarasi, IBM [Speaker Info] Inside IBM Spyre: Dataflow Architectures and Compiler Innovations for Efficient AI | |
| 12:45 PM | Willow Ahrens, Georgia Institute of Technology [Speaker Info] TALK TITLE TBD | |
| Lunch | ||
| 1:15 PM | Lunch, KLAUS ATRIUM |
Summit Hotels and Directions
Please see the following page for information on local hotels and directions to the summit venue.
Event Contact
Please contact the event organizers using the CRNCH webform for any questions about this event.
Organizers: Hyesoon Kim, Tushar Krishna, Divya Mahajan, Spencer Bryngelson, Shimeng Yu