People working on Kestrel

The current team

Richard Hughey <rph@soe.ucsc.edu>

Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Engineering. Dinners and talks, PI.

Kevin Karplus <karplus@soe.ucsc.edu>

Professor of Computer Engineering. VLSI design course, protein structure prediction, co-PI.

Andrea Di Blas <andrea@soe.ucsc.edu>

Researcher. Interests include developing newer algorithms for NP-hard optimization problems and development of new methodologies for SIMD parallel programming.

Francisco "Javi" Mesa-Martinez <javi@soe.ucsc.edu>

Ph. D. student. Working on the new controller and compilers.

Eric Rice <elrice@soe.ucsc.edu>

Graduate student in Computer Engineering. UCSC BS in Computer Science. Combinatorial Chemistry. Arithmetic algorithms.

David Pease <pease@soe.ucsc.edu>

Graduate student in Computer Engineering. Floating point.

Kaushik Narayanun <kaushik@soe.ucsc.edu>

Graduate student in Computer Engineering. New controller debugging. Plans to implement SOC design of the 1024-PE kestrel chip.

Mark Kendrick <tanru@soe.ucsc.edu>

Computer Engineering/Physics undergraduate student. Working on board layout.

Eric Perlman <ericp@soe.ucsc.edu>

Computer Engineering undergraduate student. Working on Java applications and remote access to Kestrel board.

Brian Parker <bunnyboy@soe.ucsc.edu>

Computer Engineering undergraduate student. Working on the new controller hardware.

Aaron Tomb <atomb@soe.ucsc.edu>

Computer Engineering undergraduate student. Creating new Kestrel runtime environment, including the debugger and device driver. Breaks things and fixes them again.

Jason Guilford <jguil4d@soe.ucsc.edu>

Computer Engineering undergraduate student. Writing Programmer's Reference Guide, the Kestrel programmer's manual.

David Fulton <dfulton@soe.ucsc.edu>

Computer Engineering undergraduate student. Building macro and sample code library, as well as working on the programmer's manual.

Alexandra Carey <fire@soe.ucsc.edu>

Computer Engineering/Mathematics undergraduate student. Working on the simulator for the new controller. Dreams about programming it in assembly. Maintains Kestrel poetry page.

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Previous team members

Elizabeth Avila

Gradute student in Computer Engineering. High level language development.

Kevin Delaney

Undergraduate student in Computer Engineering. Device drivers and server software.

Mark Diekhans

Gradute student in Computer Science. HMM Application development.

Ben Fulton

Undergraduate student in Computer Science. Computational Biology server development.

Leslie Grate

Gradute student in Computer Engineering. Computational Biology applications and hardware development.

Daniel Littrell

Undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering. Board design.

Jennifer Leech

Undergraduate Computer Engineering student. Runtime environment and board controller design.

Drake Silva

Undergraduate student in Computer Engineering. Server software.

Ebin Warner

Undergraduate student in Computer Science. Compiler development.

Raymond Wheeler

Graduate student in Computer Science. Algorithm development.

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Alumni

David Dahle

USCS MS in Computer Engineering, UCSC BS in Computer Engineering and Physics. VLSI layout design, board/controller debugging, runtime environment core, HMM applications. Now at Intel.

Alicia Grice

UCSC MS in Computer Engineering. Algorithm development.

Jeff Hirschberg

Former Postgraduate researcher. UCSC MS in Computer Engineering. Architectural design, modeling, simulation and verification. Board design. Now at Intel.

Paul Imthurn

UCSC MS in Computer Engineering. Simulator development. Now at Silicon Engineering, Incorporated.

Rachel Karchin

UCSC BS in Computer Engineering. Application development. Now a graduate student at UCSC.

Hansjoerg Keller

Visiting reseacher and professor of Computer Science, Biel School of Engineering, Switzerland. Application development and controller design.

Justin Meyer

UCSC BS in Computer Science. Runtime environment for Kestrel, Smith and Waterman. Now in San Francisco.

Osama Salem

UCSC BS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Engineering. Board server software for Kestrel.

Don Speck

UCSC MS in Computer Engineering. VLSI and architecture guru. Now at Synoptics.

Doug Williams

UCSC MS in Computer Engineering. SRAM design. Now at HP.