Anwar is a Principal Engineer with Intel’s Microprocessor Technology Lab, working on diverse topics such as parallel language and compiler design, parallel architecture evaluation, optimizing memory system performance, and multimedia applications. Anwar Ghuloum earned degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles (B.S., Computer Science and Engineering) and Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science (Ph.D., Computer Science, 1996), where his thesis introduced concepts of Nested Data Parallel idioms to traditional automatic parallelizing compilers. Before joining Intel, he co-founded and was the CTO of a fab-less semiconductor startup called Intensys that built programmable, highly parallel image and video processors for the consumer electronics market. Prior to that, Anwar developed novel predictive drug design software for early lead optimization using 3D surface pattern recognition techniques for a biotech startup called MetaXen (acquired by Exelexis Pharmaceutica