What’s Driving Data-Centric Innovation?

Ziya Ma is responsible for optimizing data analytics solutions on the Intel® architecture platform, leading open source efforts in the Apache* community, and bringing about optimal big data and analytics experiences for Intel customers. Her organization works extensively with internal product teams, the open source community, the industry, and academia to further Intel’s efforts in the big data analytics field.

Since joining Intel in 2000, Ziya has held various management roles, including Software Director of Product Development in Intel IT, where she led development of internal software lifecycle management tools and analytics solutions, worldwide.

In 2018, Ziya was recognized as one of the Women of the Decade for Data & Analytics. She is also a co-founder of the Women in Big Data forum. Ziya earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Arizona State University.

Henry is a senior principal engineer in the Intel Software and Services Group, Developer Products Division, and is the editor of The Parallel Universe, Intel’s quarterly magazine for software innovation. He first joined Intel in 2000 to help drive parallel computing inside and outside the company. He transferred to Intel Labs in 2010 to become the program manager for various research programs in academia, including the Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Intel, Henry was Director of Scientific Computing at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center MSRC, a Department of Defense high-performance computing facility. Henry holds a B.S. in biochemistry from Louisiana State University, an M.S. in medical informatics from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, and a PhD in molecular genetics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. He has published extensively in computational life science and high-performance computing. Henry recently rejoined Intel after spending four years working on a second PhD in information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he established an expertise in applied informatics and machine learning for problems in healthcare and chemical exposure.