Dr. Gordon Brebner is a Distinguished Engineer at Xilinx, Inc., the worldwide leader in all-programmable technologies. He works in Xilinx Labs, leading an international group researching issues surrounding networked processing systems of the future. His main personal research interests concern dynamically reconfigurable architectures, domain-specific languages with highly concurrent implementations, and high performance networking and telecommunications.
Most recently, his research has led to the Xilinx SDNet product for software defined networking at up to 100G rates. He led the Xilinx participation in the Stanford Clean Slate program that incubated OpenFlow, and now participates in multiple ONF working groups and also its Chipmakers’ Advisory Board. Prior to joining Xilinx in 2002, he was the Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh.
