Robert Drost

Robert Drost
Born (1970-08-17) August 17, 1970
New York City, US
Alma mater Stanford University
Occupation Computer Architect

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 an 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

Works

Drost co-authored (with R. Ho) Coupled Data Communication Techniques for High-Performance and Low-Power Computing, Springer, 2010.

Other publications:

References

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