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Cullen Bash

HPE Vice President and Director of Systems Architecture Lab

Cullen is a Vice President of R&D at Hewlett Packard Labs and currently serves as Director of the Silicon and Systems Architecture Lab. Focusing on a wide range of inter-related topics including system and fabric architecture, VLSI design, system software, photonics, IC packaging, and software-hardware co-design, the multi­ disciplinary lab is tasked with advancing next generation silicon and systems architecture from research to revenue.

Prior to his current role he served as Director of the Platform Architecture Lab where he led a cross-functional hardware, software and architecture team that spanned several organizations and business units as part of the Machine program within Hewlett Packard Labs.

Cullen also served as interim Director of the Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group at HP Labs where he led wide-ranging research into the sustainability of IT equipment, and the use of IT to improve the sustainability of customer ecosystems. During this time, he was also Principal Investigator of the Sustainable Data Center project which investigated the design and operation of data centers to reduce overall resource consumption. In previous roles, he has led research in thermal technologies over a variety of different length scales, from integrated circuits to data centers. Cullen has also taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in heat transfer and electronics cooling. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.