Sunil Shukla received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2008. He is currently a Principal Research Staff Member and a Manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, where he leads the Architecture and Logic Design Team. Over the past decade at IBM Research, he has worked on projects ranging from hardware accelerators to programming languages and runtimes. He is currently leading the development of an accelerator system fordeep learning.