Kenny Dow
FPGA Engineer at DroneShield
Australia
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Top SchoolKenny Dow is an FPGA engineer and computer scientist with 10 years of experience bridging academic research and commercial SoC and SDR systems. He holds a PhD from UNSW (2023 Dean’s Award) for work on RISC-V memory safety that combined ISA extensions and LLVM compiler techniques, and now applies that expertise at DroneShield building FPGA-based SDR communication and radio-threat systems. His background spans SoC integration, GPU and ARM-like core design, Linux kernel driver work, and biosensor AFE SoC prototypes—skills that let him move innovations from paper to deployable hardware. Kenny’s rare mix of compiler-level security research and hands-on FPGA system engineering makes him effective at closing the gap between architecture, toolchain, and fielded embedded systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at National Sun Yat-Sen UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at National Tsing Hua UniversityUNSW Sydney
English, Chinese, Mandarin
Stackoverflow
21reputation
375reached
2answers
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Github Skills (18)
memory-safety6
cygwin6
duplicates6
instruction-set6
memory-management6
cpu-architecture6
grep6
security6
assembly6
risc3
rocket3
simulator3
accelerator2
metadata2
compression2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Lycheus/shore-llvm
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:53 commits in 2 years 3 months
Lycheus/HWST128
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Complete Memory Safety Accelerator on RISC-V with Metadata Compression (compiler and simulator)
Contributions:1 review, 6 commits, 3 PRs in 1 day
risc-vmemorycompressioncompilerrisc
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