Scott Rixner

Biography

Scott Rixner is a Professor in the Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at Rice University. He leads the Rice Computer Architecture Group, and his research interests include media, network, and communications processing; the interaction between operating systems and computer architectures; and memory system architecture. During his doctoral studies, Rixner was the principal architect of the Imagine Stream Processor. His current research focuses on embedded systems, network server architecture, network virtualization, and memory system architecture.

Research Interest

Computer architecture, operating systems