Oskar Mencer#
| Membership Number: | 4689 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~oskar |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - 2010 Consulting Professor, Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science, Stanford University
- 2003 - ongoing Founder and CEO of Maxeler Technologies
- 2000 - 2003 Member of Technical Staff at the Computing Sciences Center (1127) at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ
- 2000 - ongoing Member of Academic Staff, Computing Department at Imperial College London, UK
- 1998 HIVIPS scholar, Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi, Tokyo
- 1997 intern, DIGITAL Systems Research Center, Compaq and HP, Palo Alto, CA
- 1996 intern, Rockwell Computer Science Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
Fields of Scholarship
- Numerical methods and simulations
- Imaging
- Discretization of space, time and value
- Multiscale dataflow processing
- Circuits and VLSI
- Supercomputers
- Logistics of data processing
- AI and Internet of Things
- Internet technologies and blockchain
- Marketing and management
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Special Award from Com.sult for "revolutionising the world of computers"
- 2007 Imperial College Research Excellence Award
- 2001 Top EPSRC Advanced Fellowship
- Award Papers:
- "StReAm: Object-oriented Programming of Stream Architectures Using PAM-Blox” (2000) by Oskar Mencer, Heiko Hübert, Martin Morf and Michael Flynn has been recognised as one of the most significant and influential papers in 25 years of the FPL conference at the Royal Institution, London, 2015
- Haohuan Fu, Oskar Mencer, Wayne Luk, "Optimizing Residue Arithmetic on FPGAs"
- Best Paper Award, International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology 2008 (ICFPT'08). December, 2008
- Kubilay Atasu, Oskar Mencer, Wayne Luk, Wayne Luk, Can Ozturan,"Fast Custom Instruction Identification by Convex Subgraph Enumeration"
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP), Leuven, Belgium. July, 2008
- Awards at Maxeler Technologies:
- CIO Review, 20 Most Promising HPC Companies, March 2015
- CIO Review, 20 Most Promising Networking Companies, March 2014
- Frost and Sullivan “Most innovative IT vendor, ” Dec 2013
- Gartner “Cool Vendor of the Year,” March 2012
- HPCwire Editors Choice Award, November 2011
- American Finance Technology Awards, New York, winner, “Most Cutting Edge IT Initiative,” December 2011
- Special Honour:
- Presentation of Maxeler Dataflow Engine technology, to David Cameron and Angela Merkel
