Cathal McCabe

Cathal McCabe is the AMD University Program manager for EMEA, responsible for supporting academic teaching and research with AMD technologies. This includes development and delivery of training on the latest tools and technologies, research support, industrial-academic partnerships, and special academic programs. Most recently this has included managing the Heterogeneous Accelerated Compute Clusters research program (HACC) in EMEA, which supports research into high-end heterogeneous compute applications, and part of the PYNQ project – a Python and Jupyter based open-source research project to enable higher productivity and ease-of-use on AMD Adaptive Compute platforms.

He has been a member of several international conference technical program committees and has acted as an advisor to many national, EU and international research projects related to FPGAs. Prior to joining AMD, Cathal worked for STFC (formerly CCLRC) and was the Europractice technical manager for FPGA, Embedded and ESL design.