David Wentzlaff

David Wentzlaff is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He earned his Ph.D. from MIT, where he also co-founded Tilera Corporation, serving as Lead Architect for the TILE64 and TILEPro64 processors and designing the scalable TILE processor architecture. Prior to his work at Tilera, he contributed to the design of the Raw Processor and its on-chip networks at MIT. Wentzlaff founded the MIT Factored Operating System (fos) project, focusing on scalable operating systems for thousand-core multicores and cloud computers. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from MIT and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His current research interests include developing next-generation manycore processors for data centers and sustainable computing. Outside of academia, he enjoys hiking and mountaineering.