Layne Peng
VMware
Staff Researcher
Layne Peng is a tech lead in VMware's CTO Office, where he leads cutting-edge federated learning initiatives. Layne is a respected Technical Steering Committee member of both FATE and OpenFL. He is the primary maintainer of FATE, an open-source federated learning framework, and the creator of several cloud-native FL projects, including KubeFATE and FedLCM. Layne is also an active speaker at major conferences such as OpenStack Summit, LinuxCon, KubeCon, LFAI, and Apache Big Data Conference.