Summary
Jawad Nasrullah is a semiconductor and systems entrepreneur with 20+ years of deep technical leadership in ultra-low-power CPU design, mixed-signal/SerDes, and hardware-software co-design, now leading Palo Alto Electron as CEO. He has a rare combination of hands-on circuit design and large-scale architecture experience from roles at Intel, Sun, Samsung, and as co-founder/CTO of zGlue, driving chiplet-based 3D-IC products and standards. He co-leads the OCP Open Chiplet Economy effort and helps coordinate industry consortia like Chiplet.US, translating research-grade techniques into interoperable, production-ready packaging and thermal solutions. Known for pragmatic innovation—patent-backed low-Vmin and leakage-management methods and dual-Vcc retention schemes—he blends academic rigor from Stanford with startup grit in Silicon Valley. Based in Palo Alto, he focuses current efforts on distributed AI platforms and Web3/metaverse hardware that marry analog/RF and digital domains for high-performance, energy-efficient computing.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. with Honors Electrical Engineering, B.Sc. with Honors Electrical Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
c/c++, matlab, python