| John Wawrzynek | |
| Citizenship: | US |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Computer Architecture Reconfigurable Computing Integrated Circuit |
| Alma Mater: | California Institute of Technology University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign University at Buffalo |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Carver Mead |
| Thesis Title: | VLSI Concurrent Computation for Music Synthesis |
| Thesis Year: | 1987 |
John Wawrzynek is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a joint appointment with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and is the Chief Faculty Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. He is currently a principal researcher in multiple large research centers at UC Berkeley including Algorithms and Specializers for Provably Optimal Implementations with Resilience and Efficiency (ASPIRE),[1] the Parallel Computing Laboratory (ParLab),[2] and the TerraSwarm Research Center.[3]