Hector Gonzalez (SpiNNcloud Systems) Joins CRA-Industry Council

By Helen Wright, Manager, CRA-I

CRA-Industry (CRA-I) is excited to announce that Hector Gonzalez of SpiNNcloud Systems has joined the CRA-I Council. Hector joins a vibrant group of council members led by CRA-I Council Chair Ron Brachman from Cornell Tech. Together, they are committed to working with the CRA-I Steering Committee to guide the direction of future initiatives, engage with the community, and advance the goals of CRA-I. 

Hector is the co-founder and co-CEO of SpiNNcloud Systems, a deep-tech company providing brain-inspired microchips and systems for the third generation of AI. Hector has helped position SpiNNcloud among the most relevant hardware startups in Germany. Under his co-leadership, the company has received several recognitions, including the largest EU grant for startups (EIC Transition) in the challenge of “Green digital devices of the future”. Hector is a Fellow of the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Embedded Composite Artificial Intelligence (SECAI). He holds a B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering and is a graduate of the MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperative Program in Abu Dhabi, where he earned an M.Sc. degree in Microsystems after conducting research on AI hardware for EEG-based emotion detection. His PhD studies at TU Dresden focused on chip design for AI-enabled Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) for automotive radars. Hector has held senior industrial positions in Instrumentation & Control across various countries and has received numerous international academic honors and awards. He has authored or co-authored more than 23 peer-reviewed articles, is the inventor of a patent in the cognitive radar field, and has been part of numerous press communications from prominent sources such as IEEE Spectrum, the BBC, Arm, EE Times, Sandia National Labs, eeNews Europe, Silicon Angle, and the the EU flagship Human Brain Project, among others.

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Welcome, Hector!