Speakers

Dr. Mark Horowitz

Mark Horowitz is the Yahoo! Founders Professor at Stanford University and was chair of the Electrical Engineering Department from 2008 to 2012. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1978, and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. Dr. Horowitz has received many awards for his work and has broad research interests. He has worked on many processor designs, from early RISC chips and in 1990 he took leave from Stanford to help start Rambus Inc, a company designing high-bandwidth memory interface technology. His work at both Rambus and Stanford drove high-speed link designs for many decades. In the 2000s he started a collaboration with Marc Levoy in computational photography which led to light-field photography and microscopy. His current research includes updating both analog and digital design methods, agile hardware design, and applying engineering to biology. He remains interested in learning new things, and building interdisciplinary teams.