Muhammed Tauseef Rab

Tauseef is the Director of CPU Design at Luminous Computing. He brings more than 15 years of experience in designing high performance CPUs and DSPs. At Western Digital, he was a pioneering member of the team that designed and open sourced the first industrial grade RISC-V CPU. Prior to that, he was a micro- architect at Qualcomm and the processors he built were shipped in 3 billion devices. He holds 3 patents in various sub-specialties of CPU design. His PhD research was focused on imprOving yield in 3-D circuits. He also holds an MS and BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. When he is not shaping transistors, you will find him evangelizing entrepreneurship and brainstorming about a wide array of topics from social apps to sports and food.