---
title: Abdul Dakkak
category: people
role: Chief Scientist
company: Modular
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adakkak"
website: "https://dakkak.dev"
sourceLabels:
  - Official speaker roster
  - Official conference schedule
last_auto_summarized: '2026-07-06T08:42:40.867Z'
---
# Abdul Dakkak

## Profile
Chief Scientist at [[modular|Modular]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adakkak)
- [Website](https://dakkak.dev)

## Biography
Abdul Dakkak is Chief Scientist at [[modular|Modular]], where his work sits at the center of AI compute and GenAI performance. In the World's Fair program, he is tied to [[modular|Modular]]'s hardware and systems story: helping AI teams deal with the expanding mix of accelerators, kernels, framework layers, and serving infrastructure behind modern model deployment. His role connects Mojo, low-level performance work, and [[modular|Modular]]'s broader platform strategy for making AI workloads run efficiently across changing hardware targets.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-abdul-dakkak-modular-taming-the-ai-hardware-cambrian-explosion]] — Modular: Taming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion (2026-06-30, 3:45pm-4:05pm)

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### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-abdul-dakkak-modular-taming-the-ai-hardware-cambrian-explosion|'Modular: Taming the AI Hardware Cambrian Explosion']]

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