Dr. Sailesh Kumar is a seasoned expert in SoC, Fabric, IO, Memory architecture, and algorithms, with over two decades of experience. He has pioneered several high-impact, industry-first technologies, including 400G Network Processor at Huawei, Software Defined Fabric at NetSpeed, Xeon Architecture Transportation at Intel, and Software Defined Chiplet at Baya. Sailesh founded NetSpeed Systems and served as its Chief Technology Officer until its successful acquisition by Intel. At Intel, as a Fellow, he initiated and led multiple projects, such as the design of a Xeon platform automation system and the standardization of data center compute protocols. Sailesh is also a prolific author, with more than two dozen highly cited papers and over 150 patents. He holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.