I
received my Ph.D., S.M. and S.B. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering
and
Computer Science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. There I was a member of the Computation Structures Group
within the Laboratory of Computer
Science (now combined with the former Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory to form CSAIL.)
My Ph.D. advisors
were Professor Arvind
and Dr. Larry Rudolph.
My research interests at MIT were parallel computer architecture,
computer
architecture, simulation, parallel run-time systems and
compilers. I was an architect of the StarT-Voyager machine as
well as the StarT-NG
machine. I am a research affilate of CSAIL.
After completing my Ph.D. and before coming to UT, I was a system
architect at Avici Systems, a
company that designs
high-end, scalable core routers. Our routers are extremely
scalable, capable of Terabit front panel capacities, and are
extremely reliable. They make up AT&T's core backbone
network. I worked in the system architecture team that was
responsible for overall system architecture, component architecture and
software architecture. I lead all of Avici's architectural
simulation efforts, architected traffic managers and helped with switch
fabric and network processor architecture.
I was a
member of the Board of Directors of Dharmacon, a company that produces
siRNA and custom RNA oligos, until the company
was
acquired by Fisher Scientific in 2004. I developed the original
database system that managed Dharmacon's operations from synthesis and
quality
assurance to quote generation, shipping/invoicing and customer service.
I was the local
arrangements chairperson of the High Performance
Computer Architecture (HPCA)
conference held in Austin, Texas in February of 2006. Our banquet
was at
the SaltLick.
I was the finance chairperson of the International
Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) held in Seattle in 2007 and the ICS held in