Stephen Heil

Stephen Heil is a principal program manager in Azure Hardware Systems Group, Microsoft Corporation. In recent years, his focus has been on the development of custom programmable hardware accelerators for use in Microsoft datacenters. His research interests include field programmable gate arrays, application accelerators, and rack-scale system design. He has been involved in various aspects of computer system design and standards while working at Microsoft, Compaq, Panasonic and Unisys. He has a BS in electrical engineering technology and computer science from The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) and has been a longstanding member of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Contact him at Stephen.Heil@microsoft.com.