Avi Mendelson
Avi Mendelson is a principal engineer in Intel’s Mobile Platform Group in Haifa, Israel, and adjunct professor in the CS and EE departments, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He received his B.Sc. and M.S.c degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and his Ph.D from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Avi has been with Intel for 7 years. He started as senior researcher in Intel Labs, later he moved to the Microprocessor group where he serves as the CMP architect of Intel® Core™ Duo processor. Avi’s work and research interests are in computer architecture, low-power design, parallel systems, OS related issues and virtualization. His e-mail address is avi.mendelson at intel.com.

Julius Mandelblat
Julius Mandelblat is a principal engineer in Intel’s Mobile Platform Group in Haifa, Israel. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Transport Engineers Institute in Moscow (USSR). Julius joined Intel 16 years ago. He worked on many of the processors that have been developed by Israel Design Center during this period. Julius worked as micro-architect and senior design leader for the CMP implementation of the Core Duo processor. His e-mail address is julius.mandelblat at intel.com.

Simcha Gochman
Simcha Gochman is a senior principal engineer with Intel’s Mobile Platform Group in Haifa, Israel. Simcha has been with Intel for 21 years. Lately he was leading the microarchitecture development of the Pentium® M processors Banias and Dothan and of the Core Duo processor code name Yonah. Earlier in Intel he led the microarchitecture definition of the Pentium Processor with MMX™ technology and was involved with the design of the 80860 processor and the 80387 numeric coprocessor. Simcha received his M.Sc. degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1984. His e-mail address is simcha.gochmana at intel.com.

Anat Shemer
Anat Shemer is a senior software engineer working on mobile software enabling in the Software Solutions Group. Anat has been with Intel for 16 years. She worked on performance analysis of multi-threaded workloads supporting the evaluation of Intel Core Duo micro-architecture performance. Earlier at Intel she worked on binary tools and performance simulation tools that supported Intel future micro-architectures development. Anat received here M.Sc. degree from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1989. Her e-mail address is anat.shemer at intel.com.

Rajshree Chabukswar
Rajshree Chabukswar is a software engineer working on client enabling in the Software Solutions Group that enables client platforms through software optimizations focusing on multi-threading and mobile enabling. Prior to working at Intel, she obtained a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, NY. Her e-mail address is rajshree.a.chabukswar at intel.com.

Erik Niemeyer
Erik Niemeyer is a senior software engineer working for Intel’s Software and Solutions Group. His current assignment is in New Mexico with the Mobile Enabling Client Team working on IBM-Lotus Notes* to help improve performance and reduce power consumption of the upcoming R8 release. Erik has been with Intel for 6 years. Before Intel, Erik was a systems integrator/programmer with the Federal Government for 12 years and worked on enterprise-level application performance tuning. Prior to that Erik earned his B. Sc. from the University of New Mexico. His e-mail address is erik.a.niemeyer at intel.com.

Arun Kumar
Arun Kumar is an engineering manager in Intel’s Software and Solutions Group in Dupont, Washington. He received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his Masters and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where his research was in the area of image processing and computer vision. Currently, his team works on client platforms based on Pentium-M, Pentium-D and Core Duo processor architectures with special focus on CMP, application software performance and platform power consumption. His e-mail address is arun.kumar at intel.com.