Jian Zhang is an AI software engineering manager at Intel, where he and his team primarily focus on end-to-end data analtyics and AI pipeline optimizations on Intel platforms implementing and optimizing end to end AI solutions on distributed CPU cluster, democratizing AI models to improve scalability & usability on commodity hardware. He has over 10 years of experience in performance analysis and optimization for many open source projects such as Xen, KVM, Swift, Ceph, Spark, and Hadoop. He earned a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He has mulitple publications and has also presented at the OpenStack Summit, Vault, Strata Data conference, Cephalocon, OFA workshop, Flash Memory Summit, Data + AI Summit etc.