Dr. Earl Swartzlander

Biography

Earl Swartzlander is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, where he joined the faculty in 1990. He has a distinguished career, having previously worked at TRW Space Defense in Redondo Beach, California, where he developed a semi-custom integrated circuit with over 100,000 transistors and led the development of a high-speed floating point FFT processor. Swartzlander's research interests focus on the development of special purpose processors, with related interests in computer arithmetic and systolic array architecture. He has authored a book, edited five others (including one on computer arithmetic), and published more than 275 conference and journal papers across the fields of computer arithmetic, signal processing, and VLSI implementation. His contributions to the field have earned him recognition as an IEEE Fellow, registration as a professional engineer, and several prestigious awards including Purdue University's Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award and Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Awards from both Purdue University and the University of Colorado. Additionally, he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2021.

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