# Gilad Shainer

> Gilad Shainer is Senior Vice President of Networking at NVIDIA, where he leads the strategy, marketing, and ecosystem development for the company's networking portfolio — including InfiniBand, Ethernet, DPUs, and interconnect technologies that power more than half the world's top 500 supercomputers. A Technion-trained electrical engineer who graduated Cum Laude at both B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels, Shainer spent nearly two decades at Mellanox Technologies before joining NVIDIA via the $6.9 billion acquisition in 2020. He founded the HPC-AI Advisory Council in 2008, which now spans 400+ organizations globally, co-founded the ISC Student Cluster Competition, holds two R&D 100 Awards (2015 and 2019), and has authored or co-authored dozens of papers across IEEE, ACM, and Springer venues. At a moment when AI factories are rewriting the rules of data center design, Shainer is the person making sure the wires — and the protocols running through them — are ready.

- **Role:** Senior Vice President of Networking at NVIDIA
- **Organizations:** NVIDIA, HPC-AI Advisory Council (Founder & Chairman), Unified Communication Framework (UCF) Consortium (President), CCIX Consortium (President), OpenPOWER Foundation (Board Member), OpenCAPI Consortium (Board Member), InfiniBand Trade Association (Member), OpenUCX (Advisor), Winter Classic Invitational (Advisory Board), ISC Student Cluster Competition (Co-founder)
- **From:** Israel
- **Nationality:** Israeli
- **Education:** B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Cum Laude), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, M.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Cum Laude), Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** R&D 100 Award 2015 — CORE-Direct In-Network Computing technology (in-network collective offload), R&D 100 Award 2019 — UCX (Unified Communication X) open-source communication framework, Founded HPC-AI Advisory Council (2008), grown to 400+ member organizations globally

## Career timeline

- **1998** — Graduated B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude, Technion
- **2001** — Graduated M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Cum Laude, Technion; joined Mellanox Technologies as Design Engineer
- **2005-2012** — Senior Marketing Management roles at Mellanox Technologies
- **2008** — Founded HPC-AI Advisory Council
- **2012-2013** — Vice President, Marketing Development at Mellanox Technologies
- **2013** — Promoted to Vice President, Marketing at Mellanox Technologies
- **2015** — Won R&D 100 Award for CORE-Direct In-Network Computing technology
- **2019** — Won R&D 100 Award for UCX (Unified Communication X) technology
- **2020** — NVIDIA acquires Mellanox for $6.9B; Shainer joins NVIDIA as Senior Vice President of Networking
- **2022** — NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand platform announced — world's first 400Gb/s InfiniBand
- **2023** — NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform for AI announced
- **2024** — NVIDIA Quantum-X800 800Gb/s InfiniBand platform announced; Invited keynote at IEEE Hot Interconnects
- **2025** — NVIDIA InfiniBand powers 271 of TOP500 supercomputers; Spectrum-XGS cross-domain networking announced
- **2026** — Keynote speaker at IEEE Hot Interconnects 2026

## Achievements

- R&D 100 Award 2015 — CORE-Direct In-Network Computing technology (in-network collective offload)
- R&D 100 Award 2019 — UCX (Unified Communication X) open-source communication framework
- Founded HPC-AI Advisory Council (2008), grown to 400+ member organizations globally
- Co-founded ISC Student Cluster Competition, now in its 13th+ year
- Led NVIDIA networking portfolio powering 271 of TOP500 supercomputers (as of ISC 2025)
- 19+ papers published in IEEE, ACM, and Springer venues
- B.Sc. and M.Sc. both completed Cum Laude at Technion Israel Institute of Technology
- Served as President of UCF Consortium and CCIX Consortium
- Board member of OpenPOWER Foundation and OpenCAPI Consortium
- Invited keynote at IEEE Hot Interconnects 2026

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Presented at CES 2026 on compute/network/storage lockstep and the concept of Context Memory Storage for AI factories
- **2025-11** — Announced NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS cross-domain 'scale-across' networking connecting distributed data centers into unified AI super-factories
- **2025-08** — Featured in major HPCwire interview: 'Networking in the AI Age — Gilad Shainer SVP of Networking at NVIDIA Shares Winning Design Insights'
- **2025-06** — Cited at ISC 2025 that NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand connects 271 of TOP500 supercomputers
- **2025-03** — Appeared on theCUBE with Cisco's Will Eatherton at NVIDIA GTC 2025 in Washington D.C.
- **2025-10** — Video interview: 'Revolutionizing Networking for the Era of Agentic AI'

## Links

- Website: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/giladshainer/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giladshainer
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NVIDIANetworkng
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NVIDIANetworking

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