Robert Drost is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

. He was born in 1970 in New York City.

Life

Drost joined

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in 1993 after obtaining a B.S. and

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from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. In 2001 he earned a Ph.D. in

and a Ph.D. minor in

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from Stanford. As of 2011 he is a holder of over 95 patents in

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. Until 2010, Drost was Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Advanced Hardware at

, helping to pioneer wireless connections between computer chips called

proximity communication Proximity communication is a Sun microsystems technology of wireless chip-to-chip communications. Partly by Robert Drost and Ivan Sutherland. Research done as part of High Productivity Computing Systems DARPA project. Proximity communication rep ...

. Since 2010, Drost has had various roles, including CEO, COO, and CFO, at Pluribus Networks, Inc., a

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–based startup that he co-founded with Sunay Tripathi and Chih-Kong Ken Yang.

Distinctions

* Awarde
Best Paper
a
Supercomputing 2008
the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. * Named to the

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and sc ...

Technology Review ''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "''The''" in its name on April 23, 1998, under then pu ...

TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35. *

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Gold Medal for Innovation in Computing Systems.
Judge for the Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards since 2005.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Drost, Robert American computer scientists Living people 21st-century American businesspeople Stanford University alumni 1970 births