About me
Michael Wong is the CTO of YetiWare an AI company, and was a Distinguished Engineer/VP of R&D at Codeplay/Intel. He is a current Director and VP of ISOCPP, Chair of the C++ Direction Group, and a 25 year senior member of the C++ Standards Committee with more than 15 years of experience. He specializes in Ai/ML, Low latency, functional Safety, AV, fintech, offloads, and Programming Models. He chairs the WG21 SG19 Machine Learning/AI and SG14 Games Development/Low Latency/Financials C++ groups and is the co-author of a number lock-free programming, parallelism/concurrency, AI/ML/C++/OpenMP/Transactional memory features including generalized attributes, user-defined literals, inheriting constructors, weakly ordered memory models, and explicit conversion operators. He has published numerous research papers and is the author of a book on C++11. He has been an invited speaker and keynote at numerous conferences. He is currently the editor of SG1 Concurrency TS and SG5 Transactional Memory TS. all Programming Languages for Standards Council of Canada. Previously, he was CEO of OpenMP, SYCL Chair involved with taking OpenMP toward Accelerator support and the Technical Strategy Architect responsible for moving IBM’s compilers to Clang/LLVM after leading IBM’s XL C++ compiler team.
