Peter Cnudde

Peter Cnudde is director of engineering for federated learning at NVIDIA, where he works with customers, partners, and research teams to enable real-world federated learning with NVIDIA FLARE. He has more than 30 years of experience building distributed systems. Before joining NVIDIA, he was vice president of engineering at Yahoo, responsible for Yahoo's big data and machine learning platforms. Earlier in his career, he worked in wireless telecommunications, including roles at Alcatel and RF Micro Devices. He holds a master's degree in electrotechnical engineering from the University of Ghent in Belgium.
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Posts by Peter Cnudde

Data Science Aug 19, 2026

Building Federated Multimodal AI Workflows with NVIDIA FLARE

Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can support tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, and image-text reasoning. In practice, however, the data... 7 MIN READ
Agentic AI / Generative AI Jun 09, 2026

Accelerating Federated Learning Research with AI Agents and NVIDIA FLARE Auto-FL

Federated learning (FL) research often begins with a deceptively simple question: What should we try next? A new aggregation rule, a FedProx coefficient, a... 10 MIN READ