Robert Munafo
Robert Munafo
10 Linwood St. #304 / Malden MA 02148 / (617) 335-1321
mröb27 (at) gmáił.com (remove diacritics)
My Purpose and Mission
on LinkedIn
Employment Experience
Boston University, Sep 2016 - May 2024
Electrical and Computer Engineering (MS degree earned in 2018, Ph.D. earned in 2024)
Digital Circuit Design: Verilog, SystemVerilog, RTL Coding, RTL Verification
Intel Corporation (Hudson, MA), May 2019 - Sep 2019.
Hardware Design Intern
SystemVerilog RTL design, implementation, testing and validation for FPGA acceleration of large-scale high-performance computing (HPC).
Independent (Cambridge, MA), Jan 2008 - Sep 2016
Computer Programmer
High-performance computing on medium-scale SMP systems. Examples are at mrob.com/sci, mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia, and mrob.com/pub/math/sloandora
GCC Printers (Bedford MA), May 1997 - May 2002
Software Engineer
Devise and implement algorithms; analyze, debug and refactor other people's code; design test scripts; primarily for computer printers running PostScript/PCL interpreters on an in-house RISC-based embedded operating system
PrePRESS Solutions (Billerica MA), 1996 - 1997
Software Engineer
High-end PostScript interpreter driving an imagesetter
Older independent open-source work, 1991 - 1996
Software Engineer
Several applications for Palm and Newton handheld PDAs, server-side dispatch to text pagers, and open-source UUCP; software development and technical writing for MacTech and PIE (Newton PDA) magazines
VideoGuide, Inc. (Bedford, MA) Jan 1994 - Jun 1996
Software Engineer
Realtime data acquisition, signal analysis and pattern matching, custom data compression algorithms
GCC Technologies (Cambridge MA and Waltham MA), Sep 1987 — Dec 1993
Software Engineer
packet networking protocol and related drivers and modules for hard drives, printers, etc. in 680x0 assembly, AMD 29000 assembly, and C
Education
Boston University, 2016 - 2018
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Internship with Intel's hardware design department at Bedford MA (see above)
Dartmouth College, 1982 - 1986
AB, Computer Science
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Kemeny Computing Prize (2nd place, shared), 1984 ----
Software Projects
- Q04B (greatly enhanced 2048-like game; HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript with ApplicationCache, created in 2014).
- RIES (inverse equation-solver; mentioned in xkcd in 2012; standalone C and server with backend in PHP/SQL)
- PDE4 reaction-diffusion simulator, website to exhibit results; screensaver; I published a paper and gave a talk to Rutgers' mathematical physics department in 2010.
- Sloandora, a system for user-guided discovery in the OEIS integer sequences database, 2009.
- The MCS project, including the mcsfind program, finds the simplest formula matching a given set of small integers.
- My own web pages are created in RHTF, a markup language of my own design that is "embarassingly readable" and more powerful than alternatives such as Markdown, Wikitext, BoostBook, etc.
- Contributions to several open-source projects: SheepShaver, xapple2 (an Apple II emulator), Golly (a cellular automata simulator), and others.
(link to this page: mrob.com/users/mrob/resume.html)