Hugo Affaticati

Meet Hugo

Senior TPM Manager driving Evaluations Quality and Platform workstream for MAI-Thinking-1 model.

Senior TPM Manager at Microsoft AI
Former Technical Lead of Azure AI Benchmarking Team
Author of technical articles with 150K+ cumulative reads, featured in VentureBeat, HPCwire, and Signal65
Speaker at GTC, Supercomputing, Build, and Ignite

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Hugo Affaticati

Hugo Affaticati (he/him)

Portfolio

⚡ Industry-Leading Inference Performance

🧠 Record-Breaking AI Training at Scale

🌐 Pioneering AI Developements in the Cloud

🔍 Industry Benchmarking Standards

  • Spearheaded the Azure AI Benchmarking Guide, a widely-referenced validation suite setting performance baselines of infrastructures (NVIDIA and AMD hardware) for AI production workloads.

Current team members

  • Sarah Choe - Technical Program Manager, Microsoft AI
  • Elaine Fu - Technical Program Manager, Microsoft AI
  • Ashley Trunko - Technical Program Manager, Microsoft AI

Latest content

Latest publication: Breaking the Million-Token Barrier: The Technical Achievement of Azure ND GB300 v6
Azure High Performance Computing Blog - Nov 3, 2025
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Latest video: Latest Infrastructure Trends for Inference
Hallway Track interview series
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