Aravind Neelakantan is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on Generative AI training and inference solutions. His expertise spans artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, with research interests in performance analysis and optimization of AI workloads on heterogeneous architectures. Prior to AWS, Aravind developed reference architectures for large-scale AI clusters and specialized in AI inference performance optimization using hardware accelerators. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, specializing in heterogeneous HPC architecture.