Pradeep Sindhu
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Pradeep Sindhu is the Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/ Vice Chairman of the Board of the Directors of Juniper Networks
Inc. He was also the CEO of the company until 1996.
Sindhu is considered a technical visionary in the field of high performance and networked computing.
(1974) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1976) from the University of Hawaii
, and a Ph.D (1982) in Computer Science
from Carnegie Mellon University
where he studied under Bob Sproull
.
for 11 years. Sindhu worked on design tools for very-large-scale integration
(VLSI) of integrated circuits and high-speed interconnect
s for shared memory
multiprocessor
s.
Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California
. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware
on March 1998 in and went public on the 25th of June, 1999.
Sindhu was instrumental in the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 data router while running the company.
Sindhu's earlier work was to subsequently influence the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems'
first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which includes systems such as the SS1000 and SC2000.
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...
Inc. He was also the CEO of the company until 1996.
Sindhu is considered a technical visionary in the field of high performance and networked computing.
Biography
Sindhu holds a B.Tech. in Electrical EngineeringElectrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
(1974) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1976) from the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...
, and a Ph.D (1982) in Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
from Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
where he studied under Bob Sproull
Bob Sproull
Dr Robert F. Sproull is an American computer scientist, who works for Oracle Corporation where he is director of Oracle Labs in Burlington, Massachusetts .- Biography :...
.
Work
Sindhu had worked at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARCXerox PARC
PARC , formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and co-development company in Palo Alto, California, with a distinguished reputation for its contributions to information technology and hardware systems....
for 11 years. Sindhu worked on design tools for very-large-scale integration
Very-large-scale integration
Very-large-scale integration is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip. VLSI began in the 1970s when complex semiconductor and communication technologies were being developed. The microprocessor is a VLSI device.The first semiconductor...
(VLSI) of integrated circuits and high-speed interconnect
High Speed Interconnect
NVIDIA's BR02 ″High Speed Interconnect″ chip was used in their early PCI Express graphics cards, where it acted as a bridge between the PCI Express connection to the computer and the natively AGP GPU...
s for shared memory
Shared memory
In computing, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them or avoid redundant copies. Depending on context, programs may run on a single processor or on multiple separate processors...
multiprocessor
Multiprocessor
Computer system having two or more processing units each sharing main memory and peripherals, in order to simultaneously process programs.Sometimes the term Multiprocessor is confused with the term Multiprocessing....
s.
Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware
Delaware
Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...
on March 1998 in and went public on the 25th of June, 1999.
Sindhu was instrumental in the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 data router while running the company.
Sindhu's earlier work was to subsequently influence the architecture, design, and development of Sun Microsystems'
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
first high-performance multiprocessor system family, which includes systems such as the SS1000 and SC2000.