Bilge Acun

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | MENLO PARK, UNITED STATES

Bilge Acun is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Her research interests include Systems for Machine Learning, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Energy Efficient Computing. She is working on making large-scale machine learning systems fast and efficient. Particularly, she works on two optimization areas to improve the system throughput and efficiency:System and hardware optimizations using accelerators i.e. GPUs / TPUs and

Algorithmic methods such as tensor compression.

Bilge received her Ph.D. degree in 2017 at the Department of Computer Science at Universtiy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation received the 2018 ACM SigHPC Dissertation Award Honorable Mention. Before joining Facebook, she worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center as a Research Staff Member.