Arvind

Arvind is the Johnson Professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering. His work laid the foundations for Bluespec, centering on high-level specification and description of architectures and protocols using Term Rewriting Systems (TRSs), encompassing hardware synthesis as well as verification of implementations against TRS specifications. Previously, he contributed to the development of dynamic dataflow architectures, the implicitly parallel programming languages Id and pH, and compilation of these languages on parallel machines. In 1992, Arvind's group at MIT built a dozen Monsoon dataflow machines and associated software in collaboration with Motorola. Arvind has served on editorial boards, chaired professional conferences and consulted for many top tier technology and computer companies. In 1994, he became an IEEE Fellow and was awarded the Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award. In 1999 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and the University of Minnesota.  As the Founder and President of Sandburst, a fabless semiconductor company, Arvind led the Company from its inception in June 2000 until his return to MIT in August 2002.