Urmish Thakker, SambaNova Systems Urmish Thakker is a Principal Engineer at SambaNova Systems working on large LM. Urmish works on efficient training and inference algorithms for Deep Learning Applications and has 25+ publications and patents in this domain. He received his Master’s from University of Wisconsin Madison and has 6+ years of experience working on HW-SW codesign of ML Applications across companies like Arm, AMD and Texas Instruments.