Derek Chiou is a Principal Architect at Microsoft where he leads a team working on FPGAs for data center applications. He is also an Associate Professor at e University of Texas at Austin where his research areas are FPGA acceleration, high performance computer simulation, rapid system design, computer architecture, parallel computing, Internet router architecture, and network processors. In a past life, Dr. Chiou was a system architect and led the performance modeling team at Avici Systems, a manufacturer of terabit core routers. Dr. Chiou received his Ph.D., S.M., and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
