VLSI Research Group People

Latest news (April 2009)

Dr. Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and VP emeritus, is now a Visiting Scientist at Portland State University. Ivan founded the VLSI Research Group when his company, Sutherland, Sproull, and Associates, was acquired by Sun. Ivan, widely considered to be the father of computer graphics, held faculty positions at Harvard University, the University of Utah, and the California Institute of Technology. He won the 1988 Turing Award for his ground-breaking work in the field of asynchronous circuits. Ivan still promises to drop by from time to time.

Group members
		Jeff Rulifson, Director of the VLSI Research Group			Philip Amberg
		Alex Chow			Bill Coates (add'l photo)
		Michael Dayringer			Robert Drost (add'l photo)
		Jo Ebergen (add'l photo)			Jonathan Gainsley (add'l photo)
		Gilda Garreton			Ron Ho (add'l photo)
		David Hopkins			Ian Jones (add'l photo)
		Puneet Khanduri			Jon Lexau
		Frankie Liu			Hesam Fathi Moghadam
		Ranjini Mehdi			Dmitry Nadezhin
		Tarik Ono (add'l photo, add'l photo)			Dinesh Patil
		Nate Pinckney			Steven Rubin (add'l photo)
		Justin Schauer			Alan Wood
		Suwen Yang
Consultants
		Elad Alon, University of California, Berkeley			Azita Emami-Neyestanak, California Institute of Technology
		Mark Greenstreet, University of British Columbia			David Harris, Harvey Mudd College
		Ken Yang, UCLA			Misook Yoo
Student interns
		Tamer Ali, UCLA			Amir Kamil, UC-Berkeley
		Adam Megacz, UC-Berkeley
Group alumni
		Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and VP emeritus, and founder of the group (add'l photo)
		Igor Benko			Robert Bosnyak
		Ajanta Chakraborty			Wes Clark
		Ann Coulthard			Scott Fairbanks
		Steve Furber, University of Manchester (spent a sabbatical here in 2006) (add'l photo)			Yaeko Hirotsuka (add'l photo)
		Russell Kao (add'l photo)			Charlie Molnar
		Tom O'Neill			Sanjay Pant
		Alex Ridgway

Plus a large number of former student interns.

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