About

Sundar is currently the founder and CEO of Memoir Systems, a company which focuses on generic memory acceleration technology. From fall, 2005 to 2008, he co-led the network memory group at Cisco Systems, which focused on the research, development, and deployment of memory solutions for Data Center and Enterprise networks. In the fall of 2003, Sundar co-founded Nemo Systems, where he was the CTO and Principal Architect. Nemo (acquired by Cisco Systems in 2005), specialized in memory algorithms for high-performance networking, developed by Sundar during his Ph.D. at Stanford. In 1999, Sundar was a founding member and senior systems architect at SwitchOn Networks (acquired by PMC-Sierra in 2000) where he developed algorithms for deep packet classification. Sundar has a Ph.D. ('08) and Master's ('00) degree from Stanford, and a Bachelor's ('98) degree from IIT Bombay, all in Computer Science. He is a recipient of the Christopher Stephenson best Master's thesis award in 2000, and the Arthur L. Samuel best doctoral thesis award in 2008, both in Computer Science at Stanford. In 2008, he was awarded the MIT Technology Review (TR35) Young Innovator Award.

Education

Stanford University

Computer Science

Class of 2001

Awards & Publications