Dr. John Shen

Biography

John Paul Shen is the Nokia Fellow and founding director of the Nokia Research Center - North America Lab. His research teams at NRC-NAL are engaged in a wide range of projects related to mobile internet and mobile computing. During his tenure from 2007 to 2012 at NRC-NAL, he filed 100 patents, published over 200 papers, hosted 100 Ph.D. interns, and collaborated with numerous universities. Before joining Nokia in late 2006, John was the Director of the Microarchitecture Research Lab at Intel, where he led teams in Santa Clara, Portland, and Austin to pursue research in aggressive instruction-level parallelism (ILP) and thread-level parallelism (TLP) microarchitectures for IA32 and IA64 processors. Before his time at Intel beginning in 2000, John was a tenured Full Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon University, supervising 17 Ph.D. students and dozens of M.S. students while receiving multiple teaching awards and authoring two books and over 100 research papers. His works, particularly the book "Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors," have been utilized in advanced processor architecture courses at Stanford. After 15 years in the industry, John returned to Carnegie Mellon in fall 2015 as a tenured Full Professor at the ECE Department, based on the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley campus.

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