Primary Job Title Chief Technical Officer Primary Organization Bluespec
Location Arlington, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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Rishiyur Nikhil is the CTO at Bluespec. Nikhil has spent over 20 years in advanced technical pursuits in industry and academia. Since 2000 he led the Bluespec technology team at Sandburst Corp. For the previous 9 years he was at Cambridge Research Laboratory (DEC/Compaq), including over a year as Acting Director. Earlier, he was an Associate
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. He has led research teams, published widely, and holds several patents in functional programming, dataflow and multithreaded architectures, parallel processing and compiling. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, and IFIP WG 2.8 on Functional Programming. He received his Ph.D. and M.S.E.E. in Computer and Information Sciences from the Univ. of Pennsylvania, and his B.Tech in EE from IIT Kanpur.
