Tim Sherwood
Dean Of The College Of Creative Studies
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Sherwood is a computer architecture researcher and academic leader with over a decade of experience bridging high-assurance hardware design, hardware security, and high-throughput systems. As Professor of Computer Science and current Dean of the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara, he leads the UCSB Computer Architecture Lab and co-founded security startup Cycuity to translate research into practical tools. His work spans gate-level information flow tracking, reconfigurable adaptive computing, and program analysis, with a noted interest in sketch and pen-based interfaces that reflects a human-centered take on hardware/software interaction. Trained at UC San Diego, he combines rigorous academic research with entrepreneurial impact, routinely advancing both pedagogy and industry-facing security solutions from lab prototype to product.
12 years of coding experience
B.S., B.S. at University of California, DavisUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (18)
simulation10
python10
testing10
hardware10
pypy10
clarity10
specification10
usability10
optimization10
ranking9
react8
science8
computer-science7
linter5
lint5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
UCSBarchlab/PyRTL
Feb 2014 - Sep 2022
A collection of classes providing simple hardware specification, simulation, tracing, and testing suitable for teaching and research. Simplicity, usability, clarity, and extensibility are the overarching goals, rather than performance or optimization.
Contributions:612 commits, 52 PRs, 287 pushes in 8 years 8 months
usabilitypythongoalteachingspecification
UCSBarchlab/MapacheSim
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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