Rick McGeer
Intelligent Infrastructure Lab
Palo Alto
Biography
Rick McGeer earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science from UC-Berkeley
in 1989. From 1989-1991 he was a professor in the Computer Sciences
department at the University of British Columbia. In 1991 he returned
to UC-Berkeley as a Research Engineer in the EECS Department. In 1993,
together with Alex Saldanha, Luciano Lavagno, Alberto
Sangiovanni-Vicentelli and Patrick Scaglia, he founded the Cadence
Berkeley Labs where he served as a Research Scientist until 1999. In
1998, together with Alex Saldanha, he founded Softface, Inc., a
successful software startup subsequently sold to Ariba. In
February, 2003, Rick joined HP Labs as Scientific Liaison to the Center for Information Technology in
the Interest of Society (CITRIS) program at the University of
California. He coordinates HP's involvement in the PlanetLab consortium, a worldwide
overlay network currently consisting of over 800 nodes at
300 sites worldwide, and in the Croquet Consortium, a consortium
dedicated
to the advancement of open-source communication and collaboration
technologies. He has led multiple DARPA-funded research projects over
the
course of his career
Rick is the author of over 70 refereed technical publications,
"Integrating Functional and Temporal Domains in Logic Design" (Kluwer,
1991), holds eight patents and has won best paper awards at the
International Conference on VLSI, the Cadence Technical Conference and
the Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences. He has
served on numerous conference technical committees, and has served as
General Chair and Program Chair of the Conference on Creating,
Connecting, and Collaborating through
Computers and as General Chair of the IEEE Workshop on VLSI, the
ACM/IEEE Workshop on
Logic Synthesis, and the founding General Chair of the Tau Workshop
series. He currently serves on the steering committee of the
PlanetLab consortium and on the
Industrial
Advisory Board of CITRIS.
Rick is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Victoria, Canada.
Research interests
Combinatorial optimization; logic design and verification; networking and distributed systems; security; natural-language processing; embedded system design