Robert Mullins

Dr Robert Mullins is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science and Technology. His research focuses on efficient and secure machine learning, accelerator and microprocessor design, and open-source hardware. He is a founder and CTO at CommonAI and a founder and director of lowRISC, which stewards the OpenTitan project. Additionally, he is a founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Mullins is a Fellow of St. John's College and Director of Studies for Computer Science at both St. John's College and Peterhouse College. He edits the IEEE Computer Magazine's Computing Architectures column with Timothy Jones.

Robert Mullins is a researcher in Computer Science, specializing in Computer Architecture and On-Chip Interconnection Networks. His work focuses on optimizing network-on-chip architectures for performance, energy efficiency, and security. He has published extensively on low-latency virtual-channel routers, dynamic channel pruning, and self-timed circuits for smart card security. Mullins also explores the application of reinforcement learning in quantum compilers and the use of large language models for hardware test stimuli generation. His research addresses challenges in asynchronous logic, clocking schemes, and neural network compression, contributing to both academic and practical advancements in computer architecture.