Richard Ho

Richard Ho has a diverse and extensive work experience. Richard is currently working as the VP of Hardware Engineering at Lightmatter since 2022. Prior to that, they held various roles at Google, including Sr. Director of Engineering and Principal Engineer/Director, from 2014 to 2022. At Google, they led projects involving silicon solutions for Google's Infrastructure and Cloud, such as TPU (Tensor Processing Unit), VCU (Video Coding Unit), EdgeTPU, and IPU (Infrastructure Processing Unit). Richard also provided cross-functional leadership for Google TPU projects, delivering inference and training TPU chips across multiple generations.

In addition, Richard Ho served as the Vice Chairman of the Board at CHIPSAlliance from 2019 to 2022. Richard also worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University from 2018 to 2019. Before that, they were the Director of Engineering, SoC at Calxeda, Inc. in 2013, where they built a team to verify a next generation hyper-scale communication fabric for data centers.

Furthermore, Richard Ho worked as a Research Engineer at D. E. Shaw Research from 2005 to 2013, contributing to the development of super-computer class multi-node machines for molecular dynamics simulation of biological systems. Richard also served as the Co-Chair of the Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard committee at Accellera from 2008 to 2012, where they worked on developing an industry-wide standard for verification coverage unification.

Richard Ho's early career includes working as a Principal Engineer at Mentor Graphics in 2004, and as a Co-Founder, Chief Architect, and Vice President at 0-In Design Automation from 1996 to 2004. At 0-In, they were involved in the pioneering use of assertions libraries for verification of RTL designs and the combination of formal verification techniques with simulation.

Richard Ho received a Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University, where they attended from 1990 to 1996. Richard then pursued a Technical Management Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management Extension from an unspecified start year to 2001. Prior to that, they completed their M.Eng and B.Sc (Hons) in Microelectronic Systems Engineering at The University of Manchester, attending from 1986 to 1990.