Professional Development Track 2: Finding Your Path

Mario Nemirovsky Ph.D, Vice President and Chief Scientist

Mario Nemirovsky is chief scientist for ConSentry Networks, designing the next generation of stateful processors. He has done research in many areas of computer architecture, including simultaneous multithreading, high-performance architectures, real-time and network processors. Prior to ConSentry, Mario founded XstreamLogic, and architected its high-performance SMT network processor. Before that, he was a chief architect at National Semiconductor and at Weitek. In 1985 he was a chief architect at Delco Electronics, General Motors (GM) where he architected a GM engine control. This heavily multithreaded real-time processor is still used in all GM cars today. Mario was one of the first to understand the power of multithreading, which he termed dynamic multistreaming and first published on this subject in Micro-24 in 1991. He subsequently published results on SMT in HICSS (in 1993 and 1994) and in PACT (in 1995). Mario received his PhD in ECE from University of California at Santa Barbara in 1990 and was an Adjunct Professor there from 1991 to 1998. Mario holds 24 issued and 12 pending patents.