Akash has two decades of experience in the high-performance system software industry, with applications to network and multimedia system design. He was the founder, CTO, and director of Teja Technologies, a Silicon Valley startup that was formed based upon his fundamental research at UC Berkeley. Akash has published numerous peer-reviewed and invited papers, addressed and chaired industry conferences, and advised startups as well as established companies on their technology strategies. At ARC, Akash continues his interests in algorithms for low-power multimedia codecs, automata and graph theory, security, and system software. Akash received his Ph.D. in EECS from UC-Berkeley, M.S. in EECS from U-Florida, and BTech in EE from IIT-Bombay.
Dr. David Greaves
Faculty Member, University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
"System Development Tools"
David received his Ph.D. from Cambridge on the subject of ATM metropolitan area networks. His work experience includes research and engineering positions at numerous companies, including being the founder of Virata and the founder and chief scientist of Tenison. He currently is a technology advisor to companies such as AT&T, BT (British Telecommunications), and ARC International. Today David is a faculty member and lecturer at Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory. He recently has been working on tools for advanced hardware description using logic programming and the HOL theorem prover, and is now applying these techniques to more general software system specification and co-design and the design of the ultimate ubiquitous system.
Dr. Tom Pennello
Office of the CTO,
ARC International
"System Development Tools"
Tom has 25 years experience in the area of software tools for programmers. Tom has created automated compiler tools, compiler front ends, code generators, assemblers, debugger engines and GUIs, multicore instruction set simulators and cycle-accurate simulators, hardware bus and memory models in SystemC, hardware/software co-simulation tools, and various computer languages along the way. Tom was a co-founder and CTO of MetaWare.
Dr. Eugene Metlitski
Office of the CTO, ARC
International
"Multimedia: from SD to HD"
Eugene is co-founder and CTO of Alarity Corporation, where he was responsible for R&D and the technological vision of the company. He is renowned in the fields of multimedia technology, signal processing, computer architecture, and information security. Eugene has authored more than 50 books and papers, holds 9 patents in the field of computer science, and is a member of the editorial board of an international technical journal.
Dr. Nigel Topham
Chief Architect for ARC International and professor of computer systems at the University of Edinburgh
"Advanced Multicore Architectures"
Dr. Nigel Topham is chief architect for ARC International and professor of computer systems at the University of Edinburgh. He has led a number of processor design teams, including the configurable ARC 600 processor family. Prior to joining ARC, he was Chief Architect for Siroyan, a startup that created a high-performance scalable VLIW DSP. He is a founding director of the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture at Edinburgh University, where he researches new design methodologies for compilers, architectures and micro-architectures. He also enjoys teaching computer architecture to the next generation of processor architects. He holds BSc and Ph.D. degreesin Computer Science, both from the University of Manchester.
