Robert Drost
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Born | New York City, United States | August 17, 1970
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Occupation | Computer Architect |
Robert Drost is an American computer scientist. He was born in 1970 in New York City.
Life[]
Drost joined Sun Microsystems in 1993 after obtaining a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2001 he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. minor in Computer Science from Stanford.[citation needed] As of 2011 he is a holder of over 95 patents[1] in microelectronics.
Until 2010, Drost was Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Advanced Hardware at Sun Microsystems,[2] helping to pioneer wireless connections between computer chips[3] called proximity communication.[4]
Since 2010, Drost has had various roles, including CEO, COO, and CFO, at ,[5] a Palo Alto-based startup that he co-founded with Sunay Tripathi and Chih-Kong Ken Yang.
Distinctions[]
- Awarded Best Paper at Supercomputing 2008, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
- Named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[6][dead link][7][dead link]
- Wall Street Journal Gold Medal for Innovation in Computing Systems.[8]
- Judge for the Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards since 2005.
References[]
- ^ "Google patent search". Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ [1]
- ^ Innovators Under 35: Robert Drost, 34, MIT Technology Review, 2013
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2014-02-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Pluribus Networks: Innovating software-defined data center networking solutions to support the modern business and its applications". The Silicon Review. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ "2004 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2004. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
- ^ MIT Technology Review TR35, 2004 Winner
- ^ [2]
External links[]
- American computer scientists
- Living people
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- Stanford University alumni
- 1970 births