8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Keynote:
The Coming of Age of Data Centers Built Using Stock Components: Intelligent Self-Sensing, Self-Regulating Data Centers (session)
Dr. Bahgat Sammakia is the Interim President of SUNY Polytechnic Institute since December 2016. He is a Distinguished SUNY Professor and founding Director of the Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging Center, a NY State Center of Excellence. Dr. Sammakia has spent much of his research career working to improve thermal management strategies in electronic systems at multiple scales ranging from devices to entire Data Centers. Dr. Sammakia joined the faculty of the Watson School for Engineering and Applied Science in 1998 following a fourteen-year career at IBM where he worked in the area of research and development of organic electronic systems. He has contributed to several books on natural convection heat transfer and is also the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on several cross-disciplinary research projects. Dr. Sammakia is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ASME and of the National Academy of Inventors.