- Professor in Computer Architecture
I am a Professor in Computer Architecture at the Department of Computer Science and Technology. My current research is focused in the area of efficient and secure machine learning, accelerator and microprocessor design, and open-source hardware.
I am a founder and director of lowRISC. lowRISC is a not-for-profit company using collaborative engineering to develop and maintain open-source silicon designs and tools. lowRISC stewards the OpenTitan project.
I was also a founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK charity that promotes the study of computer science and electronics at the school level.
I am a Fellow of St. John's College and Director of Studies for Computer Science at St. John's College and Peterhouse College.
CHIA - Centre for Human Inspired Artifical Intelligence
QAMSS SRI - Quantum and Advanced Materials technologies for a Sustainable Society
EngBio IRC - Engineering Biology
*** News ***
(Oct 2024) Excited to be starting a new project as part of ARIA's "Scaling Compute" programme, with the goal to bringing the cost of AI hardware down by more than 1000x. Working with a great team at Imperial, Edinburgh and Cambridge.
(Feb 2024) World's first commercial quality open-source chip
(Jan 2024) New EdX Computer Architecture course: "Computer Architecture Essentials on Arm" (instructors: Robert Mullins, Timothy Jones and Alex Chadwick). Short theory videos, interviews and practical lab. exercises provide an accessible introduction to computer architecture.
I currently edit the IEEE Computer Magazine's Computing Architectures column together with Timothy Jones.
