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From Unicorns to Centaurs: Powering the AI Moonshot

VP and Technical Fellow

59:25·2026·graduate level·Research Seminar

Partha Ranganathan, a Google Technical Fellow, discusses the architectural shifts required to power the next generation of AI systems, drawing from his extensive work on datacenter design.

Biography:

Partha Ranganathan is currently a VP and Technical Fellow at Google, where he is driving next-generation computing systems for the AI era. He has pioneered numerous impactful innovations touching billions of users, including widely adopted ideas across all mobile and cloud systems. He has published 100+ papers, is the co-author of the popular “Datacenter as a Computer” textbook, and is a co-inventor on 125+ patents. He has been recognized with numerous awards, notably: top 35 young innovators in the world by MIT Tech Review, top-15 enterprise technology rock star by Business Insider, IEEE & ACM Fellow, and Rice University outstanding young alumni & IIT Madras distinguished alumni awards. Fun fact: Partha is one of the few computer scientists to have an Emmy award!

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