David Wentzlaff
David Wentzlaff is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University. Wentzlaff's research has earned several awards, among them an NSF CAREER award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, AFOSR Young Investigator Prize, induction into the MICRO Hall of Fame, and the ASPLOS WACI Test-of-Time Award. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT and received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Lead Architect and Founder of Tilera Corporation, a multicore chip manufacturer now owned by Mellanox. David's current research interests include how to create manycore microprocessors customized specifically for Cloud computing environments, how to design computer architectures in a post Moore’s Law world, and how to reduce the impact of computing on the environment by optimizing computer architecture for fully biodegradable substrates. Many of the research projects created by Wentzlaff’s group have been open-sourced including the PriME simulator, OpenPiton, and PRGA.