ETI Team

ETI's management team consists of a core group of engineers with diverse academic, industrial, financial, and legal backgrounds.

Founder & Chief Scientist
Dr. Guang R. Gaoreceived his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1986, respectively. Currently he holds the position of Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware, where he has been the founder and leader of the Computer Architecture and Parallel Systems Lab. Previously, he had been an Associate professor of the School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Dr. Gao has 100+ publications in refereed conference/workshop proceedings and journals. He was the Co-Editor of Journal of Programming Languages, and a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Concurrency journal, and IEEE Transaction on Computers. He has been a program/general chair, or a member of steering/program/organizing committee of many international conferences in his field.

He has edited or co-edited several research monographs and has served as a Guest Editor on Special Issues for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and IEEE Transaction on Computers. Currently, Dr. Gao is a Distinguished Visitor and a Senior Member of IEEE CS, and a member of ACM SIGARCH, SIGPLAN and IFIP WG 10.3.

In addition, Dr. Gao has been consultant for several industry and government organizations.

CEO
Nicholas Gao received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and 1998, respectively. Mr. Gao has had experience in working with two previous startups: Legalcite, a legal documentation software company, and Automail, a company which planned to produce an automated photocopier and mailing mechanism. In addition, Mr. Gao has clerked for the Honorable Gregory Hines in the District Court of Delaware and was a summer associate at the law firm of Davis, Polk and Wardwell in New York. Currently, Mr. Gao is a Juris Doctor candidate -- degree to be awarded in May 2001 -- at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

CTO
Dr. Robert Kim Yates received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 1975 (U. Michigan), 1987 (U. California, Davis) and 1992 (McGill U., Montreal). He has 25 years of experience in industry and government research and development, all in parallel and distributed systems. He was Principal Investigator and Project Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he participated in the design and implementation of programming languages and compilers and of parallel I/O systems, both for high-performance supercomputing applications. He also has extensive experience in real-time system software.

CFO
Ashwin Alankar is a Ph.D. candidate in the finance department at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, where he is the NASDAQ Fellow. His research interests are in computational finance and econometrics. Ashwin recently was at Deutsche Bank building forecasting models of exchange rates. Along with his finance background, Ashwin also holds a strong engineering background. He received dual B.S. degrees in Math and Chemical Engineering, as well as a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. Ashwin has been involved with several start-up ventures over the past years. One of his Ph.D. program committee members is Daniel L. McFadden, the 2000 Nobel Prize winner in Economics.

Chief Scientist
Dr. Kevin Theobald received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1982 and 1990, respectively. He has had extensive industry experience at Codex Corp. and Motorola. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from McGill University in 1999. Currently, Dr. Theobald is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Delaware.