James C. Hoe

James C. Hoe is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (College of Engineering). He is on sabbatical at MangoBoost and directs research in computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, and high-level hardware design.

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2000)
• M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (1994)
• B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley (1992)

Research Interests

Professor Hoe’s work spans computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, FPGA architectures, and high-level hardware synthesis. His group created the CoRAM abstraction for virtualized FPGA computing and leads efforts in power-efficient accelerators, in-network computing, and security-oriented FPGA systems.

Scientific Awards

• IEEE Fellow (2013)
• Intel Outstanding Researcher Award (2021)

Research Funding & Projects

• Intel / VMware Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center – co-leading exploration of FPGA roles in future datacenters.
• DARPA BRASS program ($2.7 M, 4 years) – ensuring long-lived software systems remain robust to resource changes.
• Pigasus open-source IDS – world’s fastest FPGA-accelerated intrusion-detection system (100 Gb/s on one server).

Labs & Teams

He heads activities within the Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM), supervising graduate researchers on CoRAM++, SPIRAL autotuning, and FPGA overlays for stream processing.