James Hoe is a Taiwanese-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Professor Hoe’s current research focus is on devising a new FPGA architecture for power efficient, high-performance computing.
He currently leads the Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center to investigate a new programmable hardware data-nexus lying at the heart of the server and operating over data ‘on the move’ between network, traditional compute, and storage elements.
Between 2005 and 2011, his group worked on the Protoflex technology to accelerate the functional-only simulation using a multithreaded implementation of the SPARC V9 ISA in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
While a graduate student at MIT, he initially worked on high-performance system area network for computer clusters (StarT-Jr and Start-X).