Mark Horowitz

Mark Horowitz holds the Fortinet Founders Chair in Electrical Engineering and is the Yahoo! Founders Professor in Stanford University's School of Engineering. He also serves as Professor of Computer Science. His career spans over four decades, with foundational contributions to microprocessor design, high-speed link architectures, and computational photography innovations like the Lytro camera.

Education:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (1984)
• MS in Electrical Engineering, MIT (1978)
• BS in Electrical Engineering, MIT (1978)

Research Interests: His work bridges EE and CS with interdisciplinary focus on:

• Agile hardware design methodologies for VLSI systems
• High-speed signaling and memory interfaces (e.g., Rambus technology)
• Reconfigurable computing architectures (e.g., CGRA-based accelerators)
• Applications in computational biology and molecular systems

Recent Directions: Recent publications emphasize energy-efficient accelerators for machine learning, memory subsystem innovations, and compiler-driven hardware design frameworks like AHA! His work on Onyx and Opal architectures demonstrates leadership in sparse tensor computation hardware.

Labs & Teams: Leads the Stanford VLSI Research Group and AHA! initiative. Collaborations include work with Prof. Marc Levoy on computational imaging and partnerships with industry on memory interface standards.