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Kenneth L Shepard is an American electrical engineer, nanoscientist, entrepreneur, and the Lau Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science (Columbia). Shepard was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He received the B. S. E. degree from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1987. He was named valedictorian of his graduating class and also received the Phi Beta Kappa prize for the highest academic standing. After graduating from Princeton, he went on to attend Stanford University, Stanford, Ca. where he earned the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering (with a minor in physics), in 1988 and 1992, respectively. His studies were funded by a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. His Ph. D. research was also funded by a special "Creativity in Engineering" grant from the National Science Foundation, focused on the physics of nanoscale devices. He was awarded the Hertz Foundation doctoral thesis prize in 1992, given each year to the best Ph. D. thesis from among Hertz Fellows.After receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Shepard joined the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, where he became a Research Staff Member in the VLSI Design Department. At IBM, he was responsible for the design methodology for IBM's first high-performance CMOS microprocessors for the S/390 mainframe, the G4. This design methodology became the basis for subsequent microprocessor designs at IBM. He received IBM Research Division Awards in 1995 and 1997 for his contributions to the S/390 G4 project team. (en) |
