Primary Job Title Co-founder President and CTO Primary Organization zGlue
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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As an expert in low-power and energy-efficient designs for 3D-ICs and high-speed IO, Dr. Jawad Nasrullah’s career has spanned a number of roles at some of the top technology companies in the Silicon Valley. As one of zGlue’s co-founders, as well as its president and chief technology officer, Nasrullah’s role includes technology development and
engineering operation. Before co-founding zGlue, Nasrullah was a principal engineer at Samsung where he developed low-power design technologies for use in mobile and server SoCs. Prior to that, he was a hardware architect with Intel for several years, where he was responsible for low-power silicon architecture solutions for 22/14/10nm microprocessors and developed several patent-pending inventions, including on-off keying-based power management technology.
In addition to his stints at Samsung and Intel, he led several teams at Sun, Transmeta, and Innovative Semiconductors. At Transmeta, Nasrullah helped invent the ultra-low power LongRun2 technology. His 20-plus-years career at these respective companies allowed him to work on a number of product lines, including the Intel Core CPU, Sun Rock CPU, Transmeta Efficeon, Transmeta LongRun2, iPod Mini, and many others.
Nasrullah earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis on ultra-low power technology. He holds 14 U.S. patents issued/pending and is the recipient of a number of national and institutional awards for academic achievements and commercial contributions. Nasrullah is a senior member of IEEE.


