Presenter

Andreas Olofsson is the CEO and founder of Zero ASIC, a company that develops massively parallel processors. Previously, he was a program manager at DARPA in the Microsystems Technology Office. His interests include intelligent design automation, system optimization, and open hardware. Before he arrived at DARPA, Olofsson devoted 20 years to designing and testing low-power processors and mixed-signal circuits at Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, and Adapteva. Chip products designed by Olofsson include low-power digital signal processors (DSPs) and massively parallel reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors. From 2008 to 2016, Olofsson served as the CEO of Adapteva, where he developed the Epiphany architecture and Parallella open source computer. He received his BS in physics and electrical engineering and his MS in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Olofsson is a member of IEEE and holds nine U.S. patents.