Kevin Kissell

Kevin D. Kissell has been by turns both a hardware engineer and a software engineer at Google, developing interconnect architectures and accelerator virtualization schemes. Prior to Google, his work in systems and software architecture ranged from decoupled access/execute supercomputers at ACRI, to massively parallel distributed memory computers at nCUBE, to large-scale shared-memory supercomputers at Evans & Sutherland. His work in processor architecture includes multi-threaded and security/crypto extensions to the MIPS processor family. He holds several dozen patents in computer architecture and a degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.