Johann Pais, SPECpower Committee Member
Johann has served OSG's SPECpower Committee as AMD's technical representative since 2017.
Prior SPEC Roles
Johann has also served on the International Standards Group, Server Efficiency Committee since its inception in 2021.
Industry Role
Johann Pais is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Advanced Micro Devices in Austin (Texas), where he leads EPYC Energy Efficiency Optimization under Datacenter & Embedded Solutions Engineering. Johann has held various roles since joining AMD as a pre-silicon Design Verification Engineer in 2001. From post-silicon performance benchmarking & workload characterization where he co-authored AMD’s inaugural Client Performance Evaluation Guide, to Power-Performance End-to-End Product Ownership, he jointly published 9 Performance & Power Optimization Guides across Client & Server products. For 2 years prior, Johann designed then validated discrete & integrated GPUs at Matrox as an ASIC Design Engineer. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston (Texas) & a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, India.