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Phil Koopman has a diverse background that includes serving as a submarine officer in the Navy and working as a principal in several small startups. He has significant experience as an embedded CPU architect with Harris Semiconductor and as an embedded system architect at United Technologies Research Center. At Carnegie Mellon University, he has worked across a wide range of areas such as wearable computers, software robustness, embedded networking, and dependable embedded computer systems. His current research interests are concentrated in embedded systems, covering critical topics such as dependability, safety, critical systems, embedded control networks, distributed embedded systems, secure embedded systems, and embedded systems education. He is a senior member of both the IEEE and ACM, as well as a member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.
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