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I am a system architect at Avici Systems, a company that designs high-end, scalable core routers.  I do a variety of things there including overall system architecture, component architecture including our proprietary scalable switch fabric, fabric interface chips and traffic managers and lead all of our architectural simulation efforts.

I was a member of the Board of Directors of Dharmacon, a company that produces siRNA and custom RNA oligos, until the company was acquired by Fisher Scientific in May, 2004.  I developed their original database system that managed Dharmacon's operations from synthesis and quality assurance to quote generation, shipping/invoicing and customer service.

I graduated from MIT with my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in September of 1999.   I was a member of the Computation Structures Group within the Laboratory of Computer Science (now combined with the former Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to form CSAIL.)  My advisors were Professor Arvind and Dr. Larry Rudolph.  My research interests were computer architecture, parallel system architecture, simulation, parallel run-time systems and compilers.  I was an architect of the StarT-Voyager machine as well as the StarT-NG machine.

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Publications (*** indicates presenter)

• Itamar Elhanany, Kurt Busch and Derek Chiou.  "Switch Fabric Interfaces".  IEEE Computer 36(9): 106-108, September 2003.
• Nick Duffield (editor), Derek Chiou, Benoit Claise, Albert Greenberg, Matthias Grossglauser, Peram Marimuthu, Jennifer Rexford, and Ganesh Sadasivan.  “IETF Packet Sampling Working Group Framework Draft. draft-ietf-psamp-framework-04.txt.”  Expires April 2004.
  
• Derek Chiou.  “Network Processing Forum Fabric Benchmarking Performance Metrics.”  NPForum Implementation Agreement.
• Derek Chiou, Prabhat Jain, Larry Rudolph and Srinivas Devadas. “Application-specific memory management for embedded systems using software-controlled caches.” Proceedings of the 37^th Design Automation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, pages 416-419, June 2000. ***       
  
• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Larry Rudolph and Arvind. “Micro-Architectures of High Performance, Multi-User System Area Network Interface Cards.” Proceedings of IPDPS 2000, Cancun, Mexico, pages 13-20, May 2000.
• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Larry Rudolph and Arvind.  “Message Passing Support in StarT-Voyager.” HiPC98, Madras, India, pages 228-237, December 1998.
• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Larry Rudolph and Arvind.  “The StarT-Voyager Parallel System.”  Proceedings of  PACT’98, Paris, France, pages 185-194, October 1998.  Presentation won the “Best Student Paper” Award. ***
• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Daniel Rosenband, Mike Ehrlich, Larry Rudolph, and Arvind. “StarT-Voyager: A Flexible Platform for Exploring Scalable SMP Issues.”  SuperComputing 98, Orlando, Florida, November 1998.
• Derek Chiou et. Al. “StarT-NG: Delivering Seamless Computing”.  In Proceedings of Euro-Par'95, volume 966 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science pages 101-116.  Springer-Verlag, August 1995. ***
• James Hicks, Derek Chiou, Boon Seong Ang, and Arvind. “Performance Studies of the Monsoon Dataflow Processor.”  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 18(3):273-300, 1993.
• Venkat Natarajan, Derek Chiou and Boon Seong Ang. “Performance Visualization on Monsoon”. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 18(2):169-180, 1993.
• James E. Hicks, Mike Beckerle, Bob Greiner, Horace Thompson, Derek Chiou, Boon Ang, Andy Boughton, Tony Dahbura, and Venkat Natarajan. “Start architecture white paper.” MCRC memo, Motorola Cambridge Research Center, One Kendall Sq., Building 200, Cambridge, MA, 02139, 1994
• Derek Chiou.  “RISCy Memory: Column and Curious Caches.”  Proceedings of the 1998 MIT LCS Student Workshop on High-Performance Computing in Science and Engineering,  January 1998. ***
• Boon S. Ang and Derek Chiou.  “StarT-Voyager.”  Proceedings of the 6^th Annual MIT Student Workshop on Computing Technology, Salem, MA.  August, 1996
• Derek Chiou.  “Using GCC as an Efficient, Portable Back-End.”  Proceedings of the 5^th Annual MIT Student Workshop on Scalable Computing, August 1995.
• Boon S. Ang and Derek Chiou.  “Finding Deadlocks in Cache-Coherent Distributed Shared Memory Machines.”  Proceedings of the 5^th Annual MIT Student Workshop on Scalable Computing, August 1995.
• Boon Seong Ang, Arvind and Derek Chiou. “StarT the Next Generation: Integrating Global Caches and Dataflow Architecture.”  Advanced Topics in Dataflow Computing and Multithreading, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.