Kevin Townsend
PhD Candidate
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Townsend is a PhD candidate and experienced software engineer with eight years of industry and research experience bridging FPGA-based accelerator design and production software tools. He built custom processor designs to accelerate domains like DNA alignment, belief propagation, sparse linear algebra, and k-nearest neighbors while at Iowa State’s Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory, and later applied engineering craft at Google on software development tools. Combining deep hardware-software co-design knowledge with practical C and systems experience from teaching and research, he specializes in turning algorithmic bottlenecks into reconfigurable-logic solutions. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings an uncommon perspective: treating FPGAs as purpose-built processors rather than mere peripherals, trading silicon-level performance for architectural flexibility.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, 3.7, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, 3.7 at Iowa State UniversityBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Purdue University
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Github contributions (5)
mighster/BLUPs_Heritability
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
mighster/Data_Visualization_Graphs
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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