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About Russell Kao


Biographical Sketch:
From 1980 to 1983, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories where he participated in the definition of the HP Precision Architecture and was the principal designer of the first prototype implementation. In 1983 he joined Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Lab and participated in the implementation of the Titan, a prototype RISC architecture personal computer. His Ph.D. research involved switch-level simulation for BICMOS circuits and mixed switch-level/circuit level simulation. From 1995-1996 he worked on the application of Binary Code Modification techniques to the creation of programming tools for the IBM PC. Most recently he has been investigating the integration of the physical and logical specification of ASIC designs. His research interests include computer architecture and CAD.

Education:
Russell Kao received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1980 and the Ph.D. Degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA in 1992, all in the field of electrical engineering