Contact Info:

Mark Hempstead
MD 311
33 Oxford St.
Cambridge MA, 02138

mhempste [at] eecs dot harvard dot edu

My broad research experience in the areas of computer architecture, VLSI design, and wireless sensor networks (WSN) will be a strong addition to a computer engineering program or corporation. At Harvard, I have been an active member of the community living among undergraduates, working as a formal academic advisor and running the graduate student life committee within the engineering school.

I am on the academic market this year for junior faculty positions in the broad area of computer engineering. We live in an increasingly mobile world where the power consumed by a microprocessor has an effect on battery life, cooling costs, environmental sustainability, and, ultimately, performance. My research crosses the disciplinary boundaries of computer architecture, circuit design, and systems to address power consumption in microprocessors and low power embedded devices. My broad teaching and research interests have prepared me to teach most undergraduate computer engineering courses, graduate courses in VLSI design and computer architecture, and technology courses for non-majors.

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Objective: I am looking for an industry position focused in the research and design of microprocessors, ASICs, or SoCs under power constraints. My diverse research experiences have prepared me for work as an architect or physical designer (digital VLSI). I am especially interested in energetic and experienced research groups and design teams exploring cutting edge technologies.

I have experience with digital VLSI implementation in Verilog and setting up and using standard industry synthesis and place and route design flows. I also have experience with custom circuit design flows, both schematic and layout. At the architecture level I have experience with cycle accurate simulators and power modeling. I am proficient in several scripting languages (Perl, Matlab), major programming languages (C, C++, Java), circuit simulators (HSPICE, Cadence, HSIM) and unix/linux systems.

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