Eshcar Hillel is leading AI research at Astera Labs, driving memory and storage solutions for emerging workloads such as generative AI, deep learning recommender systems, and learning systems in general.
Eshcar specializes in theory and practice of distributed systems and in parallel computing. Previously, Eshcar was a research director at Yahoo Research, was a contributor and PMC of open source projects, published over 25 scientific papers in leading academic venues and holds several U.S. patents. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.