Summary
Caroline Trippel is an academic computer scientist and Assistant Professor at Stanford with a decade of experience bridging cutting-edge research and industry practice. A Purdue-trained computer engineer who earned her PhD at Princeton, she has focused on computer architecture and systems through roles at NVIDIA, IBM, and Facebook before moving into academia. Her technical breadth spans low-level design and verification (VHDL, ModelSim, PSPICE) to software tooling and scripting (C/C++, Python, Perl, SQL), reflecting a practitioner’s fluency across hardware-software boundaries. She has a track record of shipping verification infrastructure and debugging complex processor features, and brings that hands-on rigor to both research and teaching. Based in New Jersey, Caroline combines deep engineering experience with academic leadership, mentoring the next generation of systems researchers.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Princeton University