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Professor Taylor joined the University of Washington's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering in September 2017. Prior to joining UW, he served as a Visiting Research Scientist at Google, focusing on datacenter accelerators. He was a tenured professor at the University of California San Diego in the Computer Science and Engineering Department from 2005 to 2016. Prof. Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and his research areas include computer architecture, VLSI, and compilers. He is known for being the lead architect of the 16-core MIT Raw tiled multicore processor, one of the earliest multicore processors, and the commercialized Tilera TILE64 architecture. His innovations, including the scalable mesh cores architecture in Intel Skylake SP, have made significant impacts in the field. His research on dark silicon contributed to discussions in the semiconductor industry, and he has been involved in various projects funded by DARPA, such as HammerBlade and BlackParrot, as well as efforts in open source hardware. His work has forecasted trends such as ASIC Clouds in datacenters and he has published numerous papers on topics related to his research interest.
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