Jian Du
Jian Du is a research scientist at TikTok, leading the research and development efforts focused on integrating privacy-enhancing technologies into TikTok's products. For instance, Jian leads the development of PrivacyGo, an open-source project available on GitHub. Privacy Go aims to synergistically fuse PETs to address real-world privacy challenges, such as combining secure multi-party computation and differential privacy to enable privacy-preserving ad measurement and optimization of ad models, as well as privacy-preserving large language models. Prior to joining TikTok, Jian worked on PETs at Ant Financial and held a postdoctoral research position at Carnegie Mellon University.
Krishna Rangasayee
Krishna Rangasayee is Founder and CEO of SiMa.ai. Previously, Krishna was COO of Groq and at Xilinx for 18 years, where he held multiple senior leadership roles including Senior Vice President and GM of the overall business, and Executive Vice President of global sales. While at Xilinx, Krishna grew the business to $2.5B in revenue at 70% gross margin while creating the foundation for 10+ quarters of sustained sequential growth and market share expansion. Prior to Xilinx, he held various engineering and business roles at Altera Corporation and Cypress Semiconductor. He holds 25+ international patents and has served on the board of directors of public and private companies.