He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design.

[2] He is the CEO of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning.

[4] For postgraduate study, he attended Stanford University, where he received an MS (1984) and a PhD (1987), both in electrical engineering.

In 2013, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to shared-memory and multicore computer architectures.

His previous projects include Sparcle, a coarse-grain multithreaded (CGMT or switch-on-event SOE) microprocessor, Alewife, a scalable distributed shared memory multiprocessor, Virtual Wires, a scalable FPGA-based logic emulation system, LOUD, a beamforming microphone array, Oxygen, a pervasive human-centered computing project, and Fugu, a protected, multiuser multiprocessor.