BIO
Ron Ho is Corporate Vice President, R&D Hardware, at Lattice Semiconductor, which he joined from the position of Senior Director of Silicon Engineering at Meta and, prior to that, Senior Director of Engineering at Intel Corporation. He started his career in 1993, designing and building microprocessors at Intel. He next joined Sun Microsystems as a Distinguished Engineer, and upon Sun’s acquisition by Oracle, became the latter’s first Hardware Architect. His research interests span reconfigurable logic, accelerators, AI and augmented reality. Holder of some 60 issued U.S. patents and author of over 100 published papers on circuits and systems, he has served as a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University and as a committee member and conference chair for many technical symposia. Ho has guest edited issues of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits and the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.