Andrew Ling is a Sr. Director of ML Compilers and Software at Groq, a well funded ML acceleration startup headquartered in Mountain View. He got his PhD from the University of Toronto and has spent most of his career building compilers for various accelerators such as FPGAs. While leading Groq's ML compiler effort, Andrew has been able to develop a novel kernel-less approach to ML compilation for Groq's novel TSP, supporting a vast array of models including Large-Language and Computer Vision Models.