Robert Drost Explained

Robert Drost
Birth Date:	17 August 1970
Birth Place:	New York City, United States
Occupation:	Computer Architect
Alma Mater:	Stanford University

Robert Drost is an American computer scientist. He was born in 1970 in New York City.

Life

Drost joined Sun Microsystems in 1993 after obtaining a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2001 he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. minor in Computer Science from Stanford. As of 2011 he is a holder of over 95 patents^[1] in microelectronics.

Until 2010, Drost was Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Advanced Hardware at Sun Microsystems, helping to pioneer wireless connections between computer chips^[2] called proximity communication.^[3]

Since 2010, Drost has had various roles, including CEO, COO, and CFO, at Pluribus Networks, Inc., a Palo Alto–based startup that he co-founded with Sunay Tripathi and Chih-Kong Ken Yang.

Distinctions

• Awarded Best Paper at Supercomputing 2008, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
• Named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.^{[4] [5]}
• Wall Street Journal Gold Medal for Innovation in Computing Systems.^[6]
• Judge for the Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards since 2005.

External links

• New York Times Article on Proximity Communication
• VLSI Research group publications, Oracle (previously Sun Microsystems) Labs

Notes and References

1. Web site: Google patent search. 30 January 2014.
2. http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=165 Innovators Under 35: Robert Drost, 34
3. Web site: Chips like to rub elbows . 2014-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140226165316/http://www.rdmag.com/award-winners/2004/08/chips-rub-elbows . 2014-02-26 . dead .
4. Web site: 2004 Young Innovators Under 35 . . 2004 . August 15, 2011.
5. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/index.aspx?Year=2004 MIT Technology Review TR35, 2004 Winner
6. Web site: Robert Drost, Pluribus Networks Inc: Profile and Biography. Bloomberg News.