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Jean-Philippe Fricker
Jean-Philippe is Chief System Architect at Cerebras Systems. Before co-founding Cerebras, he was Senior Hardware Architect at rack-scale flash array startup DSSD (acquired by EMC). Prior to DSSD, Jean-Philippe was Lead System Architect at SeaMicro where he designed three generations of fabric-based computer systems. Earlier in his career, he was Director of Hardware Engineering at Alcatel-Lucent and Director of Hardware Engineering at Riverstone Networks. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from EPFL, and has authored 24 patents.