Michael Kagan

Michael Kagan serves as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of NVIDIA since May 2020, following the company’s acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, the company which he co-founded. With over 40 years in the tech industry, Michael’s career began at Intel, where he contributed to 80387 math co-processor design, led 8060XP processor architecture and managed Pentium MMX design team. At Mellanox he played a pivotal role in developing accelerated networking technologies that enhanced cloud data center efficiency. Today, as Nvidia’s CTO, Michael is focused on architecting solutions for evolving demands of artificial intelligence, developing architecture of data center as a single unit of computing – the AI factory. Michael focuses on full-stack solution, emphasizing importance of software in conjunction with hardware, advocating for the future where AI computing is accessible across diverse platforms from mega-scale data centers to mobile devices.