Robert Drost
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Robert Drost is an American computer scientist. He was born in 1970 in New York City.
Life
Drost joined Sun Microsystems in 1993 after obtaining a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. In 2001 he earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. minor in Computer Science from Stanford.Template:Citation needed As of 2011 he is a holder of over 95 patents<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in microelectronics.
Until 2010, Drost was Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Advanced Hardware at Sun Microsystems, helping to pioneer wireless connections between computer chips<ref>Innovators Under 35: Robert Drost, 34, MIT Technology Review, 2013</ref> called proximity communication.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Since 2010, Drost has had various roles, including CEO, COO, and CFO, at Pluribus Networks, Inc., a Palo Alto–based startup that he co-founded with Sunay Tripathi and Chih-Kong Ken Yang.Template:Cn
Distinctions
- Awarded Best Paper at Supercomputing 2008, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis.
- Named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Wall Street Journal Gold Medal for Innovation in Computing Systems.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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