Scott Rixner became a faculty member in the Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering departments at Rice University in the Fall of 2000. He is a co-founder of the Rice Computer Architecture Group, and his research interests include media, network, and communications processing; the interaction between operating systems and computer architectures; and memory system architecture. His research at Rice has largely focused on network server architecture and embedded systems architecture.

Scott Rixner received his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in 1995. He performed his Master’s Thesis research at IBM in Burlington, VT, as a part of the MIT 6-A Co-op program. Rixner received the Ph.D. degree in 2001, after spending 3 years at Stanford University completing his thesis under the direction of Professor William J. Dally. During his doctoral studies, Rixner was the principal architect of the Imagine Stream Processor.