Dr. Sam Siewert

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Industry	Education
Occupation	Assistant Professor at University of Alaska Anchorage and Assistant Professor Adjunct, University of Colorado, Electrical, Computer, and Engergy Engineering
Location	Anchorage and Boulder, Alaska and Colorado, United States
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Introduction	Assistant Professor at University of Alaska Anchorage. Assistant Professor Adjunct at University of Colorado at Boulder. Sam Siewert has studied at University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Houston and University of Colorado Boulder and has a BS in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science. He has worked in the computer engineering industry for twenty four years before starting an academic career in 2012. Half of his time was spent on NASA space exploration programs including the Spitzer space telescope, Space Shuttle mission control, and deep space programs. The other half of that time he has spent on commercial product development. His commercial work has ranged from I/O chip firmware architecture to scalable systems design of storage and networking solutions for high performance computing. Overall, Dr. Siewert's focus has been embedded systems with an emphasis on autonomous systems, computer and machine vision, hybrid reconfigurable architecture and operating systems.
Interests	Computer and Machine Vision, Real-time Systems, Linux, VxWorks RTOS, FPGAs, GP-GPU and GPU, OpenCL, OpenGL, CUDA, ARM, TI-OMAP, Intel Atom.