Maya Gokhale
Maya Gokhale is a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. She was previously with Los Alamos National Laboratory and
other national security research centers. Her research interests
data-centric architectures, high performance embeddable architectures,
and reconfigurable computing tools, system architectures, and
applications.
Dan Werthimer
Dan Werthimer is principal investigator of the SETI@home program
and director of the Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and
Electronics Research (CASPER) at the University of California, Berkeley.
He also serves as associate director of the Berkeley Wireless Research
Center. Werthimer was associate professor in the engineering and
physics departments of San Francisco State University and a
visiting professor at Beijing Normal University, the University
of St. Charles in Marseille, and Eotvos University in Budapest.
He has taught at universities in Peru, Egypt, Ghana, Ethiopia,
Zimbabwe, Uganda and Kenya. Werthimer has published numerous
papers in the fields of SETI and radio astronomy instrumentation;
he is co-author of "SETI 2020" and editor of "Astronomical and
Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe".
Narges Bani Asadi
Narges Bani Asadi is a 3rd year PhD student in Electrical Engineering in
Stanford University. She got her M.Sc. degree in EE from Stanford in 2006
and her B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Tehran in
2004. Her research interests are : machine learning and probabilistic modeling and
high performance computing for systems biology and personalized medicine.
Derek Chiou
Derek Chiou is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at
Austin. His research areas are high performance computer simulation,
computer architecture, parallel computing, Internet router
architecture and network processors. Before UT, Dr. Chiou was a
system architect for five years at Avici Systems, a manufacturer of
terabit core routers. Dr. Chiou received his Ph.D., S.M. and
S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
He is currently a research affiliate of the MIT Computer Science and
Artifical Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a PI in the RAMP
collaborative. His research is supported by a DOE Career award, an
NSF CAREER award, NSF and SRC awards as well as donations from Intel,
IBM, Xilinx, Freescale, Altera, and VMWare.
John Lockwood
John W. Lockwood leads the NetFPGA alpha and beta release programs as
a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford
University. Lockwood's research interests include
reconfigurable hardware, telecommunications, compute architecture, and
Internet security. Dr. Lockwood earned his MS, BS, and Ph.D degrees
from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Illinois. Prior to joining Stanford, Lockwood was a
tenured associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis. At Washington
University in St. Louis, Lockwood led the Reconfigurable Network Group
to develop the Field programmable Port Extender to enable rapid
prototype of extensible network modules in Field Programmable Gate
Array technology. Additional information about John is available
on-line as: http://stanford.edu/~jwlockwd/
Ted Speers
BS, Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 1983
Ted Speers has been at Actel for 21 years. His current role, which he's held since 2000, is defining Actel's new products and leading the strategic conversation of the executive team. Prior to 2000 Ted held a variety of roles including process development and product engineering.
Ted holds 23 patents.